Bengaluru, India – In the sultry August heat of 2007, India’s government under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sweating over the future of negotiations with the United States over a landmark nuclear deal. The proposed agreement aimed to ease access to nuclear fuel and technology in exchange for greater international scrutiny of India’s facilities.
The problem? India’s communists – suspicious of the US – were opposed to the deal. And they were India’s kingmakers.
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With 62 seats in India’s lower house in parliament, their support was holding up the Singh government.…
