India's Development Diplomacy & Soft Power in Africa

KENNETH KING is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, and former Director of its Centre of African Studies, and author of China's Aid and Soft Power in Africa (2013). MEERA VENKATACHALAM is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Mumbai, and co-editor of India-Africa Partnerships for Food Security and Capacity Building: South-South Cooperation (2021).

• Introduction: India-Africa Now: Changing Imaginaries and Knowledge ParadigmsMeera Venkatachalam and Kenneth King PART 1: The Geopolitical Imaginary and Soft Power1. 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 ChinaMrittika Guha Sarkar and Jagannath Panda PART 2: The Indian Political Right and the Reconfiguration of Soft Power in Africa3. The Indian Political Right, Soft Power, and the Reimagination of AfricaMeera Venkatachalam 4. Modi and the Mahatma - The Politics of Statues and the Saffronisation of India-Africa relationsSimona Vittorini PART 3: Capacity building: Shifting Modalities and New Knowledgescapes5. India's Changing Human Resource Diplomacy with Africa, and Africa's ResponsesKenneth King 6. A Shining Example: Modelling Growth in India's Pan-African e-NetworkVincent Duclos 7. Partnership in Times of Pandemic: India's Covid Diplomacy with a Lens on AfricaSupriya Roychoudhury and Emma Mawdsley PART 4: Skilling, Knowledge Transfer, and Indo-African Interactions8. Precarious Partnerships: Tanzanian Entrepreneurs of Asian and African DescentJacqueline Halima Mgumia and Chambi Chachage 9. The Trumpets and Travails of South-South Cooperation: African Students in India since the 1940sGerard McCann Conclusion: Reflections on India-Africa Studies, Development Cooperation, and Soft PowerKenneth 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