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E-mail:jaymaniyar@gmail.com The publication serves as a go-to point for useful scholarship on the topic and is clearly intended for those in academia with specific interests in maritime connectivity projects that emphasise infrastructure, trade, skill development, people interaction etc. leading to better relations between the beneficiary nations with the prime patrons of such undertakings. It adds immense coverage of the AAGC project to the available literature by means of a wide variety of information coupled with perspectives on offer, courtesy the Book’s many distinguished writers. This is a boon for the Book’s prospective readership. The Book, as can be expected from the single outstanding publication available on the topic, is an intellectually awakening read on the AAGC. The writers have shared ample, vital and welcome insights on the topic. They have strived to join the dots between the AAGC and historical Asian–African maritime connections through trade, commerce, migration, influence, historical people-to-people contacts and other such factors. With respect to the above review of the Book and its rather interesting contents, Asia-Africa Growth Corridor is a recommended read for a wide variety of scholars, researchers, authors, academics, topical enthusiasts and casual readers. For those engaged in research work on Africa, India, Japan, infrastructure, connectivity, development and cooperation, the Book serves as a valuable reference, guide and handbook for their endeavours. Much information can be gained from Asia-Africa Growth Corridor: Development and Cooperation in Indo-Pacific that is unavailable otherwise and will inevitably and decisively aid new and ongoing research work in this domain, despite its few but noticeable drawbacks. AAGC is, therefore, an engrossing and enlightening read on one of the world’s major regional developmental and multi-nation projects.