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Latvia has had ties with India since atleast the mid-19th century. Latvian intelligentsia learned about India from newspapers and travelers. Latvian writers were interested in India literature and the works of Rabindranath Tagore have been translated to Latvian. Latvian linguists studied the Sanskrit language and its relation with the Latvian language. This led some historians in Latvia to attempt to prove that ancient Latvians originally lived in India.

When Latvia was a part of the Soviet Union, the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic was a sister state of Rajasthan.

India recognized Latvia on 7 September 1991 and established diplomatic relations on 25 February 1992. Latvia opened its embassy in New Delhi in January 2014.

The Latvian President visited India in 1997.

Latvia has an embassy in New Delhi and honorary consulates in Bangalore and Chennai. The Indian embassy in Stockholm, Sweden is jointly accredited to Latvia.

The University of Latvia opened a Centre on Indian Studies and Culture on 9 September 2013.

India provides scholarships to Latvians under its ITEC and ICCR programmes.

As of June 2015, around 150 Indians live in Latvia. About 100 of whom are Indian students and rest are engaged in business.


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