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indians love shopping -- or more specifically, haggling -- too much to ever cease being a client state.

sorry actually thats probably some unfeeling snark. but there definitely seems to be something deeper afoot that accounts for the state of india's mic. like a man addicted to self-help books, india still yet waits for the solutions of others, on their terms. it doesn't seem to want its own capability badly enough. india is too rule-abiding to be sovereign.

They work on that - just yesterday Tejas commitment grew to some 300 a/c(on top of already delivered mk.1 and prototypes), and it's likely not the end; there probably will be a follow on mk.2 order, I.e. potentially tejaswaffe will reach ~500 a/c. That's significant.

It's just an objective truth that India can't immediately go self-sufficient.

It took China long enough, too. And China(as a communist nation) was a manufacturing maniac since day 1, Chinese economic rise started decades earlier than Indian one...and it was way faster.
(Newest mk.1a taxing for first flight)