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