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Raj Verma is Associate Professor at the College of International Relations, Huaqiao University. He is also Head of Research and Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific at the Intellisia Institute. He is also the Series Editor of ‘Routledge Series on India–China Studies’. He has been Visiting Fellow at the East Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, Fudan Senior Fellow at the Centre for BRICS Studies and the Gandhi Institute, Fudan University, Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, LSE and Visiting Fellow at Nankai University. Dr Verma has an MPhil and a PhD in International Relations from LSE. His research is focused on India’s foreign and security policy, China’s foreign and security policy, India and China in Africa, Sino-Indian-US relations, international politics of Asia-Pacific and international relations theory. He has written numerous articles and reports which have been published. He is the author of India and China in Africa: A Comparative Perspective of the Oil Industry, Routledge, 2017. He is working on a book project on ‘India, China, Pakistan and terrorism’.
Notes
1 The BJP along with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) (the ideological parent of the BJP), the Swadeshi Jagran Manch and other right-wing groups form the Sangh Parivar.
2 For a detailed analysis regarding Modi’s economic policies see Hall (Citation2019).
3 For a detailed analysis of the role of ideology in formulating economic policies and its impact see Hall (Citation2019).
4 For a detailed analysis see Majumdar (Citation2019).
5 ‘Make in India’ is an initiative undertaken by the Modi government to encourage enterprises to establish manufacturing bases in India to strengthen the Indian manufacturing sector, create jobs and increase the manufacturing sector’s contribution to GDP. Launched on 25 September 2014, initially.