India lacks the cultural buy-in to be a serious member of these groups of democracies. They just do not want the things a UK or Germany wants. Mores and values are more aligned with South Korea than India; adding India would weaken the G7.
India wants trade partners. Russia and to some extent China are currently happy to fill that void because the west seems to have no desire. Bringing India into western economies could effectively replace China for it's cheap labor and manufacturing for the west, and India would have more economic reliability and opportunity for itself.
India wouldn't sever its ties with China and Russia overnight, but it would help to erode their despotic influence against the rest of the world.
india buys a huge amount of weapons and energy from russia. rival pakistan is an intelligence partner of the five eyes.
india also just doesn't like the UK for colonial reasons. they don't take kindly to being 'told' what to do by the west, which is 110% what is going to happen if they join any kind of economic or defense alliance.
"let's all hate china together and be BFFs" sounds great, possibly even the obviously correct, moral and upstanding thing to do if you're a white westerner, for everyone else in sk, india, brazil... it doesn't really work. there's that pesky colonialism/imperialism historical thing always getting in the way.
I think you’re mostly right but India is definitely in favor of hating China. They just don’t have any plans to lock theirselves into a western alliance that forces them to be a vassal of the US.
