Opinion | G20 Foreign Ministers' Summit: Where Does India Figure in the West's Strategic Worldview?

Over a period of seven days, India will have hosted the finance ministers and foreign ministers of the G20 — a powerful group of the world's twenty largest economies, including the five veto-carrying permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). As G20 president for a year, India is playing a key role in shaping the global agenda. The United States-led West is transactional. For decades, India was regarded as part of the problem, not part of the solution. It was a former British colony with a tiny economy, extreme poverty and social divisions. The West paid it little…