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Lazy post OP. Make your case.
You say they're not marshalling the facts of history and geopolitics, but neither are you.
Well, they send a team to assassinate Sikh separatists holed up in Canada for one. This led to political fallout with India and Canada expelling diplomats from their respective countries.
How and since when do you think India has been a vassal state?
a general vibe of neocolonialism transposed to a former colony irrespective of the specifics of the country's history. no-one's going to have a nuanced perspective on every country but 'still controlled by the imperialists after achieving independence' will be close to the mark in a lot of places. not investigating that impression wrt the most populated country in the world is a bit incurious tho
The school system in the US taught me approximately nothing about India, maybe only it's name and the fact that it's shape was British Empire colo~~u~~red in that one historic map, but those were more like background details for smart kids who can piece together clues and grand narratives on their own rather than say actual intentional history lessons.
I'm not even sure I learned who Gandhi was in school, I think I absorbed that from pop culture references/movies/motivational posters/pacifist propaganda.
I've never heard of anyone calling India a vassal state tho, I'm not even sure who the liege state would be.