India's Development Diplomacy & Soft Power in Africa

Introduction: India-Africa Now: Changing Imaginaries and Knowledge Paradigms
Meera Venkatachalam and Kenneth King

PART 1: The Geopolitical Imaginary and Soft Power
1. India's Soft Power in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
Muhidin J. Shangwe

2. Between Business and Balance: India-Japan in Africa vis-à-vis China
Mrittika Guha Sarkar and Jagannath Panda

PART 2: The Indian Political Right and the Reconfiguration of Soft Power in Africa
3. The Indian Political Right, Soft Power, and the Reimagination of Africa
Meera Venkatachalam

4. Modi and the Mahatma - The Politics of Statues and the Saffronisation of India-Africa relations
Simona Vittorini

PART 3: Capacity building: Shifting Modalities and New Knowledgescapes
5. India's Changing Human Resource Diplomacy with Africa, and Africa's Responses
Kenneth King

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

7. Partnership in Times of Pandemic: India's Covid Diplomacy with a Lens on Africa
Supriya Roychoudhury and Emma Mawdsley

PART 4: Skilling, Knowledge Transfer, and Indo-African Interactions
8. Precarious Partnerships: Tanzanian Entrepreneurs of Asian and African Descent
Jacqueline Halima Mgumia and Chambi Chachage

9. The Trumpets and Travails of South-South Cooperation: African Students in India since the 1940s
Gerard McCann

Conclusion: Reflections on India-Africa Studies, Development Cooperation, and Soft Power
Kenneth King and Meera Venkatachalam

"India's Development and Soft Power Diplomacy in Africa is a remarkable effort. The merits of the book are many. The volume brings together scholars from several disciplines...Each contribution is crisp and well researched" Vineet Thakur, Africa

"This slim, affordable volume achieves what edited books often do not-consistent high quality and connective arguments across chapters that make important contributions to a growing field." African Studies Review