Relationship dossier
The Bahamas
India
Relationship assessment
Practical cooperation includes India’s post-hurricane assistance and Bahamian participation in an India-hosted regional summit.
The Bahamas toward India
+20Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis participated in the India-CARICOM Leaders’ Summit in India in 2019, providing direct government-level engagement with India.
India toward The Bahamas
+25India provided $1 million in assistance to The Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
Overall relationship
+20The relationship includes direct government engagement through the India-CARICOM summit and tangible Indian assistance to The Bahamas after a major disaster. These cooperative actions are concrete, but the extent and durability of broader bilateral programs are unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
The Bahamas and India have engaged through bilateral diplomacy and multilateral cooperation. Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis participated in the India-CARICOM Leaders’ Summit in 2019, and India provided $1 million in assistance to The Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian. These actions indicate practical cooperation, although the breadth of ongoing bilateral programs is unclear.
Key developments
Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis participated in the India-CARICOM Leaders’ Summit in India.
India provided $1 million in assistance to The Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of ongoing bilateral cooperation are unclear.
- Details of Bahamian support for India outside multilateral engagement are limited.