African Students in India: The Conflicting Narratives of Capitalism and Nationalism

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Abstract: In 2018, India launched the ‘Study in India’ initiative to attract international students to Indian higher education institutions. India ranks among the top destinations for African students to migrate for higher education. According to the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India, Sudan and Nigeria are the fourth and fifth largest contributors to India’s foreign-student rolls. Compared to the United States, the United Kingdom and other nations in the Global North, India is a relatively inexpensive option for Africans to avail superior levels of educational and medical services. The significant exchange of capital and resources between India and Africa – a partnership that began with the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1950s – can be described as an ideal model for cooperation within the Global South. The Indian economy enacted economic liberalization reforms in the 1990s which were geared at attracted foreign investment to the market and service sector. International students from Africa bring significant foreign investment to the education sector of India. However, discrimination and violence against individuals of African descent have been a rampant phenomenon in Indian society. Mob lynching, sexual harassment, and casual discrimination against black people are common in the Indian subcontinent. This reality has been disregarded by mainstream Indian media and scholarly research. The colonial legacies of colourism, racism and caste remain salient in Indian culture. This paper will analyze how the objectives of India’s capitalist political economy are in conflict with the “nationalist project of subject making” in the Indian state and society.

Keywords: Study in India initiative, international students, Africa, Global South, cooperation, racial prejudice, colonialism, globalization, colourism, foreign investment

 

 

In February 2016, A 21-year-old Tanzanian student was attacked by a mob when she was driving in her car in Karnataka, India; they beat her, tore off her shirt and set her car ablaze.¹ Earlier that year, a Congolese teacher was beaten to death on asking for an auto-rickshaw in Delhi.² In a series of attacks on Africans in Greater Noida near Delhi in March 2017, a young Kenyan college student was pulled out of a cab and assaulted by a group of angry men.³

Numerous cases of violence against people of African descent have been characterized by Indian law enforcement bodies as “regular cases of road rage”⁴ with “no element of racism.” A government official said: “it is not as if there’s a public Movement against African nationals. The attacks happened at different locations, at different times for different reasons.”⁵

India is a country where light-skinned Bollywood actresses dominate the billboards, fair-skinned Gods and Goddesses are celebrated in myths and fables, and where the world’s largest fairness cream industry thrives. The Indian population comprises of several distinct racial groups with a diverse variety of skin tones and features but the fair-skinned Indo-Aryan continues to dominate the racial and social hierarchy. The construction of the Aryan race which began as a European idea, seeped into the Indian subcontinent through its interaction with British colonialism in the 1700s. ⁶

Due to this prolonged colonial interaction which spanned roughly two-hundred years, fair-skin was consolidated as the currency of power and privilege in the mind of the ordinary Indian population. Subsequently, the struggle for freedom from the British empire and the surge of nationalism in India culminated in a unique foreign policy set-up for the independent Indian government post-1947. In partnership with other nations from the Global South with similar interests, India pioneered the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War era to protect the sovereignty and interests of developing, post-colonial nations.⁷ This mutually beneficial relationship with countries in Africa and Asia took a drastic turn in the 1990s, when India opened the doors of its economy to liberalization, international trade, capitalism and privatization to join the rest of the world in one of the biggest moments in history: the definable event of rapid globalization.⁸ The Indian economy was then, characterized by capitalistic policies aimed at increasing the role of the market and service sector, with a focus on private and foreign investment. Indian interaction with Asian and African countries was then, heavily focused on attracting foreign investment to the Indian educational, scientific and medical sectors. Most recently, the Indian government announced the Study in India initiative⁹ aimed at attracting international students from Asia and Africa to Indian universities in order to transform India into a regional education hub with a diverse student population. In light of these developments, the conflict between the ordinary Indian population’s apparent distaste for dark skin tones and the Indian government’s strategy of attracting racially diverse groups to Indian soil becomes starkly visible.

Contrary to the views of law enforcement officials, the incidences of violence against individuals of African descent mentioned above do, in fact, seem to have a common theme: they can be related to the palpable tension between the objectives of India’s capitalist political economy and the “nationalist project of subject making” in the Indian state and society.¹⁰ 

The longstanding relationship between India and Africa is an ideal model of South-to-South cooperation, as cited by many scholars.¹¹ The Indian government has launched several scholarships, schemes and programs in order to attract African students and teachers to gain from the relatively superior universities and educational facilities since the 1950s. “As of 1965, there (were) about 600 African students on fellowships in several of India’s universities.”¹² In present times, ambitious initiatives like the Study in India program mentioned earlier, offer scholarships to many nations in Africa, most notably Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania amongst others.¹³

On the surface, these programs seem like capitalist success stories – attracting foreign potential to both the African and Indian education sector. However, the complexities of racist and ethnic tensions in post-colonial India complicate this project. The legacies of colonial racial and ethnic politics from the British Raj (1757-1947) continue to persist in Indian society.¹⁴ Through the colonial gifts of white supremacy, colourism, caste-ism and racism, xenophobia based on communal and ethnic lines remains a major component in general attitudes of the Indian public. The exclusionary idea of nationalist “subject-making” based on skin-colour, caste and race (specifically Indo-Aryan nationalism) is at odds with the project of the Indian capitalist political economy to generate the flow of migration, trade and cooperation within the Global South, in this context, African nations. The result of this combination is the creation of hostile environments enabled by the xenophobic public for African immigrants attracted by the Indian capitalist political economy.  

This paper will present a historical account of the impacts of European colonialism on the attitudes of caste, race and skin colour in Indian society. Second, it will give a brief background of the 1990 liberalization reforms in India and the origins of South-to-South cooperation through Non-Aligned Movement and India-Africa relations in the education sector. Finally, it will address how the persisting colonial mindset of caste and race relations in Indian society defeats the goals of the Indian capitalist political economy by cultivating a hostile environment for people of African descent in India.

Impact of European Colonialism and Development of Indo-Aryan Nationalism 

The colonial state under the East India Company (1757-1857) and the British Crown (1858-1937) relied on exploiting religious, ethnic and caste differences in India’s diverse population in order to strengthen its control over the colony. The British solidified and institutionalized caste differences in order to appease upper-caste Hindu political leaders that opposed the colonial state.¹⁵ The European idea of racial hierarchy coupled with the Indian system of caste formed a new basis of discrimination in colonial India, a perception that remains stubbornly persistent in present-day India.

To understand the intersection of caste and race, it is necessary to define both of these concepts. The caste system is a Hindu tradition which dates back to 1200 BCE. It assigns the role of people in the social hierarchy based on occupation. For example, the four broad divisions of caste are Brahmin (upper caste priests), Kshatriya (kings and warriors), Vashiya (farmers, merchants, traders and craftsmen) and Shudhra (labourers.) There is a fifth-lowest section of caste which is not included in the formal system as they are considered to be in a “permanent state of impurity.” This community is the Dalits or the ‘untouchables’, who perform jobs such as cleaning toilets and taking out the garbage. Caste was the primary basis of stratification in Hindu society, but it was also employed by other religious communities as a legitimate basis for discrimination.¹⁶

The ideology of European imperialism has often been justified by racist science which legitimizes the idea of a “racial hierarchy” that deems the white race superior to other races. The relations between the colonizers and the colonized have always been those of domination and subjugation.¹⁷ Initially, the East India Company employed the strategy of “orientalism” to study Indian society, especially the caste system, from a Eurocentric point of view by using local interlocutors and intermediaries to understand the social and political landscape of the colony. Orientalism was the guiding ideology behind the European method of studying the ethnography of the East in order to learn how to best approach the imperial exploitation of these conquered territories.¹⁸ According to Edward Said, orientalism is a school of thought that studies the “Orient” from a euro-centric point of view. “Orientalism as a Western style for dominating restructuring and having authority over the Orient.”¹⁹ After ideas of the Enlightenment surfaced in the late eighteenth century, the strategy of British rule shifted from merely observing and understanding the population of India to “civilizing the uncivilized race.” The “civilizing mission” of the colonial administration placed those with brown skin below those with white skin through discriminatory policies and violence. The class of Indian elites (usually lighter-skinned Indians of the Aryan race) who received English education were a small and privileged portion of the population who were entitled to a higher place in the social hierarchy by virtue of having a closer association to the ‘white’ ruling race.²⁰

Caste has been a salient aspect of Indian society since ancient times, and thus, it remained the focal point of the ethnographic research conducted by British colonizers. During the Census of 1901, Herbery Hope Risely, the Census Commissioner attempted to combine anthropometry (the scientific study of measurements of the human body used in racial science)²¹ and the ethnography of caste in India by advancing an exclusively racial theory of caste. According to Risely, “invading ancient Indo-Aryans married indigenous women, creating groups of less racially pure individuals who became the lower castes.” Thus, he stated that the division of caste was purely a “grotesque scheme of social evolution.”²² 

The Aryan race which typically occupied the highest place in the caste order (Indo-Aryans were usually Brahmins) was associated with lighter skin, whereas the Dravidian race was typically associated with the tribal and lower caste communities. Thus, the British Raj solidified the relation between caste (which is solely an occupation-based system) and race. The concept of privilege that was initially associated with the “Brahmin” caste was then, also associated with the Indo-Aryan race of “lighter skin.” In British Orientalist research and discourse, Brahmins have always been painted as the dominant social group of India. It is argued that this image of India was not simply produced by the British, it was “dialogically produced” through interaction with Brahmin pandits, who were educated in English to make ideal “allies” for the colonial administration. Arguments advanced by German Orientalist Max Muller were responsible for broadening the term “Arya” to Indians by finding linguistic connections between Sanskrit, Latin and Greek. Indo-Aryans were recognized as “kin of Europeans and founders of civilization.” This is interpreted as the reason for British inclination to favour Aryans and recognize India as a primarily Hindu nation.²³ The “myth of the pure race”²⁴ advocated by Indo-Aryans (seen in their practices of strict endogamy)²⁵ served to establish a hierarchy, wherein Aryans remain supreme and other castes are deemed inferior. This “myth” is instrumental to the very existence of the rigid caste system of India.

It is argued that the use of both race and caste as a system of stratification in policy intensified the connection between darker skin and lower/impure castes.²⁶ The view which is regularly taken by many scholars is that “the Dalits are among the darkest skinned people in the Indian subcontinent.”²⁷ It should be noted that this relationship is true only for a majority of cases as there are some cases of lower-caste Indians with light skin, and upper-caste Indians with darker skin. However, race is an important variable to consider, as scholars argue that light-skinned lower-caste individuals would be deemed more socially acceptable than dark-skinned lower-caste individuals.²⁸

British colonialism was not the first time that the Indian population was conquered by fair-skinned rulers. British rule in India was preceded by the Mughal dynasty and the Delhi Sultanate: rulers of Persian and Turkish descent. However, these rulers did not exploit caste and race differences as effectively as the British.²⁹ Centuries of domination by fair-skinned foreign rulers have had a deep impact on the Indian psyche – an impact which was exponentially magnified during the British Raj.

Like many post-colonial societies, India suffers from the colonial legacy of colourism. In present-day India, white skin is directly correlated to higher levels of privilege and social acceptance in society. The capitalist market of post-1991 India cashed in on the colourist mentality of the public to fill a gap in the market for fair-skin products such as whitening creams and bleach.³⁰ India’s fairness cream market stood at an astounding 450 million USD in 2016.³¹ The prominent industry of matrimonial ads and arranged-marriages in India is incomplete without advertising the fair (and therefore, desirable) upper-caste Brahmin Hindu partner.³² In many ways, most aspects of the social status of the average Indian are connected to standards of fairness and caste – two variables that have been closely related to each other since the colonial period.

Although the Indian Constitution bans discrimination on the basis of caste, race and colour, skin colour continues to be a regular form of discrimination in everyday life. The notions of Aryan superiority and the Hindu-characterization of India from Orientalist theories of the colonial period have persisted and infiltrated the present-day nationalism in India. The “nationalist” agenda of “subject-making” in India society is based on excluding those with darker skin, while including the lighter-skinned, upper-caste Indo-Aryans. In some ways, a parallel for this observation could be drawn to the concept of “racial distancing” and “racial alignment” as described by Professor Anju Paul, an international migration scholar from Yale-NUS College. In a similar vein, as Filipino migrant workers racially distance themselves from Indonesians in order to align themselves with Western values, and increase their demands in the American market³³, Indo-Aryans disassociate themselves with darker-skin, in order to align themselves closer to Europeans. The recent surge of Hindu nationalism under the current government of India has given way to the right-wing views of upper caste Indo-Aryan Brahmins.³⁴ According to Reuters, incidences of cow vigilante violence, and mob lynching of lower caste Dalits and Muslims have been on a steady rise – a phenomenon that indicates the rapid surge of upper-caste Hindu nationalism in India³⁵

An anthropology professor at UCLA, Karen Brodkin in her work “Global Capitalism: What has it got to do with race?” cites Verdery, who suggested that “notions of purity and contamination, of blood as a carrier of culture, or of pollution are fundamental to the projects of nation-making” and that the homogeneity insisted on by nationalist projects requires those who do not fit to be “assimilated or eliminated.”³⁶ Similarly, another scholar Andrea Louie argued that the projects of nation-building and racial homogeneity are closely linked. In her article, she argues that the idea of “Chinese-ness” is associated with the racial Chinese ethnicity. In other words, if one is racially Chinese, they have a claim to the Chinese national identity.³⁷ Correspondingly, the fair-skinned, upper-class Hindu Indo-Aryan has been constructed as the ideal racial subject of the Indian nation-state. The vast, historical diversity of the Indian population is under threat due to casteism, colourism and racism.

The trends of colour-based and caste-based discrimination can be traced far back in history and they remain stronger than ever in present-day India due to the rising influence of capitalism in the fairness cream sector, Western cultural soft power as a consequence of the rise of the United States and the everlasting influence of British colonialism in the present day.

 

Non-Aligned Movement, Liberal Market Reforms of 1990, and Indian-African Cooperation

While it can be argued that British colonialism had a long-lasting effect on the perception of race and colour in the Indian population, it is important to note that there was widespread discontentment with British colonialism in the sub-continent. The economic drain of wealth and exploitation of various sections of the Indian population triggered a large-scale nationalist mass-movement against colonialism.³⁸ After the long struggle for independence and a violent partition of the territory, the Union of India formally gained independence on August 15, 1947 under the leadership of the first Prime Minister, Pndt. Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru restructured the economic policy of India based on a socialist model of government control, industrial subsidies and protectionism inspired by the Soviet Union.³⁹ Nehru was one of the pioneers of the international Non-Aligned Movement which was geared at protecting the interests of post-colonial nations in a period of power polarization during the Cold War.⁴⁰

The non-aligned countries faced the common challenges of decolonization and undoing the large scale de-industrialization of their nations due to colonial economic policies. The Bandung Principles of the Non-Aligned Movement highlight the importance of sovereignty and non-interference, while stressing the need for cooperation within the Global South.⁴¹ The relationship between India and Africa can be attributed to the shared commitment to these principles. The anti-colonial movements of Africa and India shared the principles of non-violence and self-sufficiency. Additionally, the presence of a large volume of Indian diaspora in Africa which settled there as colonial indentured labourers made Africa an important part of India’s foreign policy. The relationship between India and Africa is marked by a large flow of human resources and capital in the education, science, technology and health sectors. Notably, India has aided African countries such as Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, the Congo and others by providing scholarships and programs for interested students to immigrate to Indian universities for higher standards of education.⁴²

The liberal market reforms to India’s economy in the 1990s had a significant impact on India’s engagement with the global market and India-Africa relations. After encountering a balance of payments problem in 1991, which required a bail-out by the International Monetary Fund, “controls started to be dismantled, tariffs, duties, and taxes progressively lowered, state monopolies broken, the economy was opened to trade and investment, private sector and competition were encouraged and globalization was slowly embraced.”⁴³ The growth rate of the Indian economy accelerated by a record rate of 7.5 per cent in 1994-1997.⁴⁴ This marked a change in the Indian political economy from left-leaning objectives towards a more capitalist approach, which envisioned India’s rise as a regional superpower and one of the most economically powerful countries from the Global South. The policy geared at economic liberalization was a marked shift from the Non-Aligned Movement. A mutually beneficial relationship that surfaced through the Bandung Principles of cooperation was therefore characterized by India’s ambitious capitalistic objectives of increasing economic growth by attracting foreign investment and international students from Africa.

Recently, the government of India has announced the ambitious “Study in India” initiative to increase international student enrolment in Indian universities with the aim to generate more revenue from foreign international students while increasing India’s soft power as a global hub of education.⁴⁵ In order to attract more foreign students, the government has decided to make the visa process easier for international students and has included fee-waiver schemes. This year [2018] 15,000 seats have been offered by 160 institutions.”⁴⁶

“India has the advantage of education being delivered in English as well as a big competitive advantage in terms of cost, along with world-class colleges and universities,” according to Diptiman Das, chairman & MD of EdCIL India, the public sector undertaking that is the nodal agency to implement Study in India.”⁴⁷

The third aim of this program is to offset the large outflow of Indian students to education destinations like the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom by attracting foreign students to study in Indian universities. “According to the Reserve Bank of India, spending on tuition and hostel fees by Indian students studying abroad was $2.8 billion in 2017-18. In comparison, foreign students in India spent only $479 million in the corresponding period.”⁴⁸

In addition to South Asian nations such as Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan, Nigeria and Sudan contribute 4.8% and 4% respectively to the total number of foreign students in India.⁴⁹

African students continue to avail the benefits related to immigration and fee-waivers provided by the Indian government. On the surface, this program sounds like the perfect example of South-to-South cooperation in the education sector. However, the influence of Indo-Aryan nationalism and xenophobia in Indian society have created increasingly unsafe conditions for African international students, as evidenced by the news reports cited above.^50 51 52

India: A Safe Education Hub for African Students? 

The intersection of the Indian government’s objectives to attract African international students and the nationalist impulses based on skin colour and race present in Indian society has resulted in the creation of a paradoxical reality for African students. Upon arriving in India, African students experience a shift in their social status based on their race. This new “situational identity”⁵³ places them at the centre of xenophobic discrimination and attacks triggered by the strong presence of Indo-Aryan nationalism. African students have often been associated with charges of harassment, drug trafficking and crime by Indian law enforcement, media and the general public. While the goals of the capitalist political economy require that Indians embrace “diversity”, the general attitudes in society remain unquestionably exclusionary towards those with dark skin. In her paper, Brodkin asks, “how then, to reconcile this apparent dissolution of national boundaries with the staggering upsurge of racial, ethnic, and religious conflict mainly within nations at precisely the time when capitalism’s global hegemony seems most secure?”⁵⁴

Similarly, the ill-treatment, intolerance and growing violence against people of African descent in India begs the question: what are the stakes of acknowledging and investigating the impact of liberalization on the Indian economy on how race is lived in India? The Indian capitalist economy is trying to advance the image of an environment of diversity and acceptance to attract foreign nationals to Indian universities in order to attract investment. African students that travel abroad with hopes of an elevated lifestyle and high-quality education suffer unparalleled levels of discrimination and violence in India. In some ways, Indian society may not be ready for the racial and cultural diversity that accompanies globalization reforms. The question of how to reconcile the objectives of globalization and South-to-South cooperation with the staggering upsurge of Indo-Aryan nationalism in India remains unanswered. Brodkin cited Fukuyama, who suggested that “both capitalism and nationalism are part of the human condition, whether we like it or not.”⁵⁵ These two parallel impulses of the nation-state need to agree with each other in order to prevent violence and discrimination against vulnerable groups. In order to bring the objectives of globalization of the Indian political economy and the Indian perception of race on the same page, addressing the deep psychological impacts of colonialism on the Indian population would be a step in the right direction.

 

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Shamshir Malik is a fourth-year student pursuing a double-major in Political Science and Diaspora & Transnational Studies. Her research interests include international relations, migration, and South-to-South cooperation. As a Contributor to the South Asian section, she hopes to discuss the involvement of South Asian countries in multilateral organizations and international relations, as well as issues related to identity and migration in the sub-continent.

 

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55. Ibid.