Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xviii

Glossary

pp xix-xxii

Introduction: India–Africa Now: Changing Imaginaries and Knowledge Paradigms

pp 1-24

Part 1 - The Geopolitical Imaginary and Soft Power

pp 25-26

1 - India's Soft Power in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges

pp 27-40

2 - Between Business and Balance: India–Japan in Africa vis-à-vis China

pp 41-56

Part 2 - The Indian Political Right and the Reconfiguration of Soft Power in Africa

pp 57-58

3 - The Indian Political Right, Soft Power and the Reimagining of Africa

pp 59-78

4 - Modi and the Mahatma: The Politics of Statues and the Saffronisation of India–Africa Relations

pp 79-98

Part 3 - Capacity Building: Shifting Modalities and New Knowledgescapes

pp 99-100

5 - India's Changing Human Resource Diplomacy with Africa, and Africa's Responses

pp 101-120

6 - A Shining Example: Modelling Growth in India's Pan-African e-Network

pp 121-134

7 - Partnership in Times of Pandemic: India's Covid Diplomacy in Africa

pp 135-152

Part 4 - Skilling, Knowledge Transfer and Indo-African Interactions

pp 153-154

8 - Precarious Partnerships: Tanzanian Entrepreneurs of Asian and African Descent

pp 155-168

9 - The Trumpets and Travails of ‘South–South Cooperation’: African Students in India since the 1940s

pp 169-184

Conclusion: Reflections on India–Africa Studies, Development Cooperation and Soft Power

pp 185-196

Index

pp 197-219