Development Partnership has been one of the principal pillars of Indian foreign policy which is based on the principle of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” - the world is one family. Despite its own resource restraints, India has been one of the leading developing countries willing to share its developmental experience and technical expertise with other developing countries over the last seven decades in line with its firm and long-standing commitment to South-South cooperation and solidarity.
India’s development partnership model is based on trust, respect, sovereignty, transparency, collaboration and requirements of the partner countries. In recent years, India’s development partnership has grown significantly in scale and scope and is a mutually beneficial partnership that is human-centric in its approach. The contours of India’s development partnership programme are a reflection of a rising, aspirational India which considers its growth and development as not being separable from that of the countries of the Global South.
This edited volume is the compilation of views and papers presented by former diplomats, practitioners, academicians and policy makers at a two-day online National Seminar on ‘India’s Development Partnership: Expanding Vistas’ held on 15-16 June 2022. The Seminar was organized to mark the completion of ten years in 2022 of the Development Partnership Administration, which is responsible for implementing policy, project and capacity building initiatives within the Ministry of External Affairs of India, its achievements in expanding India’s Development Partnership and to discuss the way forward.
Edited by: Nutan Kapoor Mahawar and Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee
Ms. Nutan Kapoor Mahawar, a career diplomat, joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1996. During her over 26 years of service, she has worked on various assignments both in New Delhi and abroad. At Headquarters, she has served in the Disarmament & International Security Affairs, Europe West and Parliament & Coordination Divisions. She has held positions in Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva and Embassy of India, Moscow. Since January 2019, Ms. Mahawar is Joint Secretary in the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi. Ms. Mahawar is a post-graduate in Economics.
Dr Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee is a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi. He received his M. Phil and Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University working extensively on Pakistan’s foreign policy decision-making under civilian and military leaderships. He has taught as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Siliguri College for ten years, after which he has been involved in research with ICWA. His interest also includes India and Vietnam, ASEAN, Israel, terrorism, Foreign Policy Decision Making, India and Myanmar, South Asian politics, political and strategic development in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has published a book on Pakistan Foreign Policy Decision Making and also jointly edited a book titled ‘Gandhi and the World’ in 2022 along with many research papers and contributed chapters in edited books. He has also been part of many international conferences and lecturers abroad.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Remarks
Amb. Vijay Thakur Singh
Remarks
Shri Dammu Ravi
Remarks
Shri Prabhat Kumar
Remarks
Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi
NEIGHBOURHOOD FIRST: ENHANCED FOCUS
Remarks
Amb. Amar Sinha
India-Nepal Relations: A Partnership for Mutual Growth and Prosperity
Dr. Nihar R. Nayak
Remarks on India’s Development Partnership and Sri Lanka
Prof. Biswajit Nag
India’s Development Partnerships: A Case of India-Bhutan Energy Transition
Prof. Medha Bisht
Remarks
Amb. Ranjit Rae
India-Bangladesh Development Partnership in the 21st Century: Prospect for South-South Cooperation
Srimanti Sarkar
Shooting Star? Myanmar as a Development Partner in India’s Neighbourhood
Angshuman Choudhury
India-Maldives Development Partnership: Promises and Possibilities
Dr. N. Manoharan
India’s Soft Power Diplomacy in Afghanistan: Need for a Policy Rethink?
Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
ACT EAST AND THE INDO-PACIFIC: NEW OPPORTUNITIES
Remarks
Amb. Gautam Mukhopadhyay
India, the Indo-Pacific and Development Partnerships
Dr. Sanjay Pulipaka and Mohit Musaddi
IPEF: A Strategic cum Development Mechanism for the Indo-Pacific?
Dr. Vivek Mishra and Mrityunjaya Dubey
India’s Development Partnership with Pacific Island Countries (PICs)
Dr. Pragya Pandey
AFRICA: A TRUSTED PARTNERSHIP
India’s Development Cooperation with Africa: Fresh Adaptation Required
Amb. Gurjit Singh
Remarks
Mr. Pramit Pal Choudhury
India’s Scholarships to Southwest Indian Ocean: Major Trends and Analysis
Dr. Sankalp Gurjar
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES: RENEWED VIGOUR
India and Latin America: Partners in Development
Dr. Stuti Banerjee
India’s Development Partnership Initiatives in the Caribbean
Prof. Priti Singh
CONNECT CENTRAL ASIA: BUILDING ON TRADITIONAL GOODWILL
India-Central Asia: Exploring Potential for More Active Engagement
Dr. Athar Zafar
Connect Central Asia: Building on Traditional Goodwill
Dr. Angira Sen Sarma
LOOK WEST: BUILDING BRIDGES
India and the Middle East: Development, Diaspora and Dividends
Amb. Anil Trigunayat
India and West Asia: The Bridge that Remains to be Built
Kingshuk Chatterjee
India’s Development Partnership with Iran and Iraq: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Deepika Saraswat
About the Contributors
National Seminar
Index
Political Science
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