The Indians are no fools - they have two serious potential adversaries on their borders - the Chinese they can't fight conventionally due to the terrain so that requires a missile force. They have proved several times they can roll up the Pakistani's in a conventional war
But they also have a lot of ocean around - and a vested interest in the Gulf area - a couple of carriers and one or two SSN's mean they can do what they damn well like from Cape of Good Hope to Singapore