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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
India and Israel established full diplomatic relations in 1992. Bilateral trade has grown from $200m in 1992 to $5b in 2010. High-level collaboration in defense, science, and IT reflect inter-governmental trust and a stable partnership. Israelis and Indians interact along many axes as they traverse each other's terrains. However, these exchanges find only peripheral reference in official discourses and have received little scholarly investigation. Over 40,000 Israelis visit India annually and 70,000 Indian Jews live in Israel, aside from other (non-Jewish) Indian community clusters. What is the nature of Indian-Israeli encounters socially, culturally, and politically? Do they impact the meta-narrative of India-Israel relations? How can people-to-people synergies be better harnessed to bolster the bilateral relationship?
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