Introduction. Citing/siting Africa in the Indian postcolonial imagination -- "Every secret thing"? : racial politics in Ansuyah R. Singh's Behold the earth mourns (1960) -- Race and the politics of position : above and below in Frank Moraes' The importance of being black (1965) -- Fictions of postcolonial development : race, intimacy and Afro-Asian solidarity in Chanakya Sen's The morning after (1973) -- Hand and feet : Phyllis Naidoo's impressions of anti-apartheid history (2002-2006) -- Epilogue