1947年，冷戰拉開序幕，剛剛獨立的印度開始謀求大國地位和國家安全，在1955年正式提出「不結盟政策」,同年世界「兩極格局」正式形成。冷戰期間，印度經濟在中央計畫下，自給自足、內向型生產，同時又嚴重依賴以美蘇為代表的兩大集團的援助，直到1991年冷戰結束，印度才開始進行全方位的經濟改革。印度西部沿海已發展成為印度的經濟中心、金融中心、文教中心、航運中心，是印度洋的戰略前地。冷戰時期，印度調整外交關係與經濟關係，基於地緣政治進行經濟佈局，在大國理想下實現經濟轉型，奠定了如今西部沿海地區的經濟基礎和經濟結構。

In 1947, the Cold War kicked off. India, which had just become independent, began to seek the status of a major power and national security. In 1955, it formally proposed the "Non-Alignment Policy", and in the same year the world "bipolar pattern" was formally formed. During the Cold War, the Indian economy was self-sufficient and inward-oriented production under the central plan, and at the same time it relied heavily on the assistance of the two major groups represented by the United States and the Soviet Union. It was not until the end of the Cold War in 1991 that India began to carry out all-round economic reforms. The western coast of India has developed into India's economic center, financial center, cultural and educational center, and shipping center, and is the strategic forefront of the Indian Ocean. During the Cold War, India adjusted its diplomatic and economic relations, carried out economic layout based on geopolitics, realized economic transformation under the ideal of a great power, and laid the economic foundation and economic structure of today's western coastal areas.