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Indo–Russia Relations During Ancient and Medieval Times: Historical Foundations of Bilateral Cooperation

Author(s) Priti S. Sawale
Country India
Abstract There are very few studies that have explored the diplomatic, military, and economic cooperation that was developed between India and Russia in the Soviet and the post-Soviet era. But this connection goes back into the ancient and medieval past. India and what became Russia were not formally diplomatic partners during these times, but were linked to one another by a vast Eurasian trade, cultural, religious, and intellectual network. Indian goods, ideas, beliefs and art spread to areas of modern-day Russia by way of the Silk Roads, Central Asian caravan routes, the Caspian Sea, Persian trading centres, and the Volga region. Central Eurasia provides archaeological evidence of commodities and cultural influences originating in India which spread beyond the Indian subcontinent. These indirect links became more apparent during the medieval era in the form of merchants, travellers, intermediaries in diplomatic communications, and written reports. One of the earliest well-documented direct contacts between the two societies was when the Russian merchant Afanasy Nikitin travelled to India in the fifteenth century. His observations brought Indian economic, political, social and religious life to the knowledge of the Russian readers. The commercial lines, cultural contacts, religious contacts, travel literature and geopolitics of early contacts between India and Russia are explored. It posits that historical memory, from ancient to medieval times, was shaped through interactions, leading to a sense of cultural familiarity between the two nations and a symbolic basis for bilateral co-operation in the modern era.
Keywords Medieval Silk Road trade, cultural exchange, Central Asia, Afanasy Nikitin, Russia, India.
Discipline Other
Published In Volume 2, Issue 4, July-August 2024
Published On 2024-07-10
DOI https://doi.org/10.62127/aijmr.2024.v02i04.1444
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