Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Glossary xix
7. Introduction. India–Africa Now: Changing Imaginaries and Knowledge Paradigms 1
8. Part 1 The Geopolitical Imaginary and Soft Power
9. 1 India’s Soft Power in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges 27
10. 2 Between Business and Balance: India–Japan in Africa vis-à-vis China 41
11. Part 2 The Indian Political Right and the Reconfiguration of Soft Power in Africa
12. 3 The Indian Political Right, Soft Power and the Reimagining of Africa 59
13. 4 Modi and the Mahatma: The Politics of Statues and the Saffronisation1 of India–Africa Relations 79
14. Part 3 Capacity Building: Shifting Modalities and New Knowledgescapes
15. 5 India’s Changing Human Resource Diplomacy with Africa, and Africa’s Responses 101
16. 6 A Shining Example: Modelling Growth in India’s Pan-African e-Network 121
17. 7 Partnership in Times of Pandemic: India’s Covid Diplomacy in Africa 135
18. Part 4 Skilling, Knowledge Transfer and Indo-African Interactions
19. 8 Precarious Partnerships: Tanzanian Entrepreneurs of Asian and African Descent 155
20. 9 The Trumpets and Travails of ‘South–South Cooperation’: African Students in India since the 1940s 169
21. Conclusion. Reflections on India–Africa Studies, Development Cooperation and Soft Power 185
22. Index 197