• Sakshi Jaiswal

India and Iran are the two oldest countries in Asia with distinct cultures. The cultural relations between Iranians and the Indians have produced exceptional results, especially in the realm of art and culture. Looking atthe history of Iran and India we can recognize the strong relations of these two cultures from pre-Aryan and later pre-Islamic Persia and Vedic civilization era to Muslim cultures of Mughals and Safawids. India and Iran enjoy acommon civilization background; they share interdependent cultural heritages and face similar problems inpreserving them. Among different nations, India and Iran have had deep relations with each other along the historyin different fields. Both the nations have outstanding impacts and enjoyed on each other’s literary, cultural, religious and architectural codes from far history up until nowadays. In this paper we will discuss about thecivilizations of and the cultural relations between India and Iran in the past and also in present. However, as these two cultural civilizations move into the direction of becoming modern nation states, it has brought a different set of problems and challenges of mutual adjustment. The transformation of these two cultural entities from civilization into a nation state was accompanied by fissures, temporary breakdown and at times rupture in the amicable relationship between the two.

culture, art, heritage, civilization, religious

"India and Iran: Cultural Bonding", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.497-501, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905B72.pdf

"India and Iran: Cultural Bonding", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp497-501, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905B72.pdf