slow and reluctant. But the absence of formal relations and lack of prog-
ress in that direction overshadowed the occasional bonhomie between
the two states. So when Nehru passed away on May 27, 1964, normaliza-
tion became an even more remote possibility, and India’s unfriendliness
gradually turned into hostility. Normalization became possible only when
powerful and far- reaching international changes occurred. Those, how-
ever, were not immediately forthcoming.
200 nehru and the era of deterioration, 1947–1964