The cultural contacts between India, Central Asia and Russia go back hundreds of years. Recent excavations and researches have brought to light links from Buddhist times to medieval ages and later. This acquaintance of the two countries has been a journey of mutual discoveries. Indo-Uzbek, In do-Turk- men, Indo-Tajik, Indo-Armenian and Indo-Azerbaijan relations serve as a testimony to these contacts of friendship and cooperation. The first eye-witness account of ...