Contributed articles on relations between India and Britain in various spheres.
The current relationship between India and the United Kingdom and what the growing partnership holds for the future of the two nationsand consequently the rest of the worldis the focus of this study that combines original essays from more than three dozen thought leaders in the worlds of academia, business, politics, and the arts. The book assesses the potential for the two countries to forge an enhanced partnership and surveys the main features of a diverse and complex bilateral relationship. The essays analyze the scope for a new partnership that recognizes the role the UK can play in Indias quest for international stature. Also included are a foreword by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a chapter by British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Foreword
Preface
UK-India: A 21st Century Partnership
Section I: Strategic Partners in Emerging Global Governance
1. Indias Geopolitical Centrality
2. Shrinking Horizons: Obstacles to a British-Indian Partnership
3. India, Britain, and the Language of Partnership
4. Reinventing the Raj: The Future of Indo-British Security Cooperation
5. Shared Interests in AfPak Issues and Counter-Terrorism
6. The Military Phoenix: Reviving Indo-British Defence Cooperation
7. The Opening Door: Opportunities for Defence Industrial Cooperation between
the United Kingdom and India
Section II: Mapping Economic Futures
8. Indias Globalisation: A Framework For Analysis
9. India and Global Governance: Some Pre-conditions and Likely Role
10. From Trading Posts to Trading Partners: The Growth of the UK-India Trade
Relationship
11. Opening the Floodgates: Internationalisation of the Indian Legal
Services Market?
12. Can 1.3 Billion Indians Learn to Love Football?: The Opportunities for
Expanding the Premier League in India
13. What the UK and India can Learn from Each Other in the Telecommunications
Industry
Section III: Peoples, Minds, and Identity
14. The Soft Power of India
15. Literary Ties
16. India and the UK: Making the Past a Catalyst
17. British Influence in India
18. The Role of the Modern Diaspora in the UK-Indian Relationship
19. Personal Relationships: A Foundation for a Prosperous Partnership
20. From Curry to Corus: Brand India and the Enhanced Partnership
Section IV: Partners in Sustainability
21. The Western Oil Majors: Historical and Prospective Involvement in Indias
Petroleum Sector
22. Prospects for Future Collaboration between the Indian and UK Health and
Life Sciences Sectors
23. Tackling the Energy Deficit: British Business and Indias Nuclear Power
Industry
24. Pathways to Global Partnership: Enhancing the UK-India Relationship
25. IndoUK Collaboration in Future Markets
Section V: The Human Resources Revolution
26. The UKs Role in Indias Foreign Aid Programme
27. Indias Skills Challenge in the Global Economy
28. Open Learning for Open Societies: The Role British Institutions can Play
in the Indian Human Resources Revolution
29. Re-Conceiving India-UK Ties: A Personal View
30. Joining Hands to Nurture Human Resource in India
Section VI: A Win-Win Relationship in Financial Services
31. Changing India: Enhancing the Financial Relationship
32. The Role of International Capital Markets in Supporting Indias Economic
Growth
33. The Role of International Insurance Companies in Indias Infrastructure
Development
34. Harnessing International Banks to the Financial Inclusion Agenda
About the Contributors
Jo Johnson is the Member of Parliament for Orpington, UK. He is an elected member of the Public Accounts Committee and Deputy-Chairman of the Indo-UK All Party Parliamentary Group. Prior to his election in May 2010, he worked for 12 years at the Financial Times in a number of roles, including Associate Editor, Editor of the Lex Column, South Asia Bureau Chief and Paris Correspondent. He remains a Contributing Editor at the FT. A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, he has further degrees from the Institut d'Etudes Europeennes in Brussels and from INSEAD.||Rajiv Kumar is Secretary-General, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), New Delhi. He is the former Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER, one of India's leading economic policy think tanks. He has previously worked with the Government of India, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He was also member of the National Security Advisory Board. Dr. Kumar is a D.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University and has several publications to his credit. He is also an active columnist.
