The evolving relationship between India, the US and China is generally regarded by scholars of international relations as among the key features, perhaps even the most crucial one, that will shape the geopolitical contours of the emerging international political landscape in the twenty-first century.

Written by a scholar and an academician who for long years served as a career diplomat and hence a practitioner of international relations, the book meticulously analyses each strand of the mutual bilateral relations of the three countries, including their troubled past and uncertain present, to unravel clues for the possible future course of their relationship.

Ultimately, this book is aimed at informing its readers - scholars and laypersons alike - about the forces at work in the evolving saga of the triangular relationship between the world's most powerful nation, the world's largest nation and the world's largest democracy.