India–Zimbabwe Relations: Recalibrating the Failing Engagement
| Published date | 01 December 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/09735984231188409 |
| Author | Fradreck Jockonia Mujuru,Ningthoujam Koiremba Singh |
| Date | 01 December 2023 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
https://doi.org/10.1177/09735984231188409
Jadavpur Journal of
International Relations
27(2) 184 –211, 2023
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India–Zimbabwe
Relations:
Recalibrating
the Failing
Engagement
Fradreck Jockonia Mujuru1
and Ningthoujam Koiremba Singh2
Abstract
The India–Zimbabwe relations are rampant with obdurate omissions,
commissions, misinformation, and proper attention, hence dismally
productive. This investigation pins down the dismal relations to
Zimbabwe’s economic quagmire, the inseparable China–Zimbabwe
relations, Zimbabwe’s diplomatic isolation and the effects of sanctions
enacted by the US and other Western countries. With both primary
and secondary sources, an interpretive approach is used to generate
and analyse data. The study outlines prospects that can recalibrate
India–Zimbabwe relations, especially in the new dispensation era
of Zimbabwe after Mugabe. The possibilities include leveraging the
available business opportunities, energy and mineral resources, security,
regional cooperation and conflict management, knowledge exchange,
institutional building, and social cohesion.
Corresponding author:
Fradreck Jockonia Mujuru, Department of International Relations and Governance
Studies, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, New Delhi 201314, India.
E-mail: fraddymujuru@gmail.com
1Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar Institution
of Eminence, New Delhi, India
2Department of Political Science, Delhi University, New Delhi, India
Mujuru and Singh 185
Keywords
Diplomatic isolation, dispensation, maladies, pahukama, India–Zimbabwe
relations
Introduction
The Indian sub-continent and Africa are increasingly connecting through
trade, technology, ideas on the reformation of global governance, and
emerging areas in aeronautics and homoeopathy (Ministry of External
Affairs, Government of India 2019). India is making capacity building
and human resource development a reality for several African countries.
Conversely, Africa is providing resources to sustain India’s burgeoning
economy. Other shared interests lie in combating piracy, terrorism, and
peacebuilding. India–Africa collaboration, if cherished, is a perfect
seedbed for shared development. On a particular note, the India–
Zimbabwe relations have maladies; it is rampant with obdurate
omissions, commissions, and misinformation that require redress.
The ab initio understanding of India–Zimbabwe relations is through
oral history. In scholarly parlance, the accretion of oral history can be
inimically shallow, hence misinforming, making the authenticity and
veracity mumbo-jumbo. The conventional political, economic, and
social approach in examining India–Zimbabwe relations lacks critical
intellectual rigor. This investigation expands the social inquiry to include
archaeology while deepening the economic and political links to
reconstruct a better official representation than given. Though theories
help analyse all social processes, for the India–Zimbabwe relations,
there is a concern that it can lead to a narrower understanding, hence,
minimally used.
Zimbabwe was a land and later a country of many names. Before it
became a sovereign territory, it was known as South Zambezia, a
landlocked area between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers in Alkebulan.1
Further, it was once the land of the grandest southern African Kingdom
of Great Zimbabwe, with the capital Dzimba-hwe or Dzimbadzemabwe
(the house of stone) (Roland and Atmore 1975). It was also under the
Munhumutapa kingdom and later the Rozvi state, whose capital was
never located.
The arrival of the colonial ‘Pioneer Column’ in 1890 under the British
South Africa Company saw the land named Rhodesia in 1895. The local
people got agitated and mounted a battle, commonly known as the First
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