India-Russia Cultural Ties: Changing Dimensions

Contents: 1. First Images of India in Russian Mind/Prof. Elena Y. Tereshenko. 2. India and Russia: Relations in the Modality of Soft Power/Andrei Andreev and Ivan Andreev. 3. What Can India Teach Russians?/Sergei Serebriany. 4. The Diminishing Return: India-Russia Relations at Crossroad/Dr. Kumar Kaustubha. 5. India-Russia Cultural Ties: From Unbelievable Fantasy to Privileged Relations/Dr. Preeti D. Das. 6. Prospects for the Political and Economic Partnership of the Republic of India and the Russian Federation in Modern Global Processes/HarashchenkoNataliia, Gnatiuk Nikolay, Kushnirenko Vladimir, Volskiy Alexander. 7. India-Russia Political Ties in a Changing World Order/Ajaya K. Samantray. 8. India-Russia Relations: Shifting from Strategic Partnership to Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership/Prof. Phool Badan and Dr. Vijay Pratap Gaurav. 9. Economic and Socio-Political Aspects of Russia-India Relationship/Mokhov Andrey Vladimirovich and Muraveva Natalia Nikolaevna. 10. Role of the Private Sector in Strengthening India-Russia Trade Relations - Manish Kumar and Pankhury Harbansh. 11. India-Russia Defence Cooperation: Opportunities, Challenges and Way Forward/Col. Anajai Singh. 12. India-Russia Military-Technical Cooperation: Trends and Prospects/Nikolai Baranov and Dmitry A. Nikolaev. 13. The Image of India in Modern Russia: Political, Economic and Socio-Cultural Ideas/Yulia Shichanina. 14. Russian Far East: The Challenges of the 21st Century/Dr. Prashant Saini. References.

In the light of declining economic ties, those who were nostalgic for the close diplomatic Indo-Soviet relations came together to revisit the history of Russia – India relations and reinterpret it, drawing upon the efforts of Modi and Putin to re-energise and strengthen the ties. Interested in highlighting the reasons for stagnation, contributors of the book take a closer look to examine the potential for collaboration.