@ShauryaT asks:
Let us assume the above to be true. What capabilities does India have, that is deemed threatening or at the least desirable to the US and India is willing to use these to thwart US goals? Let us leave the morality or desirability or even the viability of the above objectives aside. Imagine a world where it is the law of the fish (matsya) that prevails, where the big fish eats the smaller one. How can India resist or is resisting not just by pleading good reason but with actual counter measures to thwart such objectives?
Let's say India continues unimpeded its growth to the third largest economy, with correspondingly expanded military power, and growing technological prowess.
1. If the US goes to war with China (say over Taiwan or something in the South China Sea or such) the US wants India to unconditionally go to war too. A vassal state would; an independent country might, only if it sees it to be in its best interest.
2. If India wants the UN and UN security council reformed, the US will want India to acquiesce to what terms the US puts.
3. The US would worry about expanding Indian influence in the IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and FATF, for instance. They would want Indian votes in such forums to march in lockstep with American votes.
4. The US's strategic requirement is that no one power or coalition of powers that does not include itself dominate the Eurasian land mass. As such, it would want to keep Russia, China and India at perpetual tension with each other. Not that it seems like it has anything to worry about right now, but as Trump himself has caused, the geopolitical situation can change very quickly.
5. The US has financialized its economy, shedding manufacturing & industrialization. As such, it fears anyone who might become a competitor in hosting financial markets.
6. The two single markets large enough to absorb the US's agricultural surplus are China and India. The US wants both of those to be captive markets. It flubbed with China; it is trying hard with India.
7. The US wants Indian workers to take care of the technical labor shortage, to pay taxes to the US, pay Social Security taxes and prop up American social welfare, but to go home before they get any of the benefits. They want India to be in that sort of a bind, where it has to accept this arrangement. Like the Gulf states where Indians can work but not get citizenship, except the Gulf countries so far do not need foreign workers to prop up their social welfare systems.
8. The US would like India to be wholly dependent on US weapon systems, and neither get them from Russia or Europe nor develop indigenous capabilities.
9. The US wants the world's semiconductor industry to relocate to the US, not to India, nor remain in Taiwan or China, etc.
10. Things like guaranteed return on US investments in infrastructure in India, and such would be welcome.
11. When the US has a project like pacifying Gaza, it wants to be able to make India supply the troops (I'm told India said it would contribute only if there was a United Nations mandate.). When the US wants to impose sanctions by itself on some country without a UN resolution or such - it wants India to obey. If the US wants the Bagram Airbase, then India is supposed to join in trying to persuade the Taliban government of Afghanistan.
Think how the British made decisions to their own benefit and to the detriment of India from London. Now change the British to the US and London to Washington DC. Of course, the historical circumstances are different and the parallel has to be taken metaphorically.