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1. Relations before 1947/1949 Contacts between the Indian and the Chinese cultural regions date back as far as the pre-Christian epoch. Inscriptions in northern India, records by Chinese and Indian travelers, as well as archeological finds of coins and porcelain have time and again provided evidence of this interchange. While trade in the north of the Indian subcontinent took place between local kingdoms along the Silk Road, kingdoms in the south of the subcontinent made use of the sea for their tra…