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{{Infobox bilateral relations|Indo–Malaysian|India|Malaysia|filetype=svg|mission1=[[High Commission of India, Kuala Lumpur]]|mission2=[[High Commission of Malaysia, New Delhi]]|envoytitle1=Indian Ambassador to Malaysia|envoytitle2=[[List of High Commissioners of Malaysia to India|Malaysian Ambassador to India]]|envoy1=Shri Mridul Kumar|envoy2=Hidayat Abdul Hamid}}
'''India–Malaysia relations''' ({{Lang-hi|भारत-मलेशियाई संबंध}}; {{Lang-ms|Hubungan India-Malaysia}}), also called '''Indian-Malaysian relations''' or '''Indo-Malaysian relations''', refer to [[bilateralism|bilateral]] [[diplomacy|foreign relations]] between [[India]] and [[Malaysia]]. India has a high commission in [[Kuala Lumpur]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianhighcommission.com.my/|title=Home|publisher=High Commission of India in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia|access-date=3 March 2017}}</ref> and Malaysia has a high commission in [[New Delhi]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kln.gov.my/web/ind_new-delhi/|title=Official Website of High Commission of Malaysia, New Delhi|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia|access-date=3 March 2017}}</ref> and a consulate general in [[Chennai]] and [[Mumbai]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kln.gov.my/web/ind_chennai/|title=Official Website of Consulate General of Malaysia, Chennai|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia|access-date=3 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kln.gov.my/web/ind_mumbai/|title=Official Website of Consulate General of Malaysia, Mumbai|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia|access-date=3 March 2017}}</ref> Both countries are full members of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/142227/members/|title=Commonwealth Secretariat - Member States|publisher=Commonwealth of Nations|access-date=3 September 2011}}</ref> [[Asia Cooperation Dialogue|Asian Union]] and [[Group of 15|G15]].<ref name="orthography">The [http://www.g15.org/ official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912210315/http://www.g15.org/ |date=12 September 2017 }} adopts the "G-15" [[orthography]] (with a hyphen) in order to distinguish an abbreviated reference to this group -- contrasts with other similarly named entities.</ref> India and Malaysia are also connected by various cultural and historical ties that date back to antiquity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianhighcommission.com.my/cult_hfj.php|title=Culture|publisher=High Commission of India in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia|access-date=3 September 2011}}</ref> The two countries are on excellently friendly terms with each other seeing as Malaysia is home to a strong concentration of [[Malaysian Indian|Indian immigrants]]. [[Mahathir Mohamad]], the fourth and longest serving Prime Minister of Malaysia has [[Indian people|Indian]] ancestry.<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick Pillai|title=Yearning to Belong: Malaysia's Indian Muslims, Chitties, Portuguese Eurasians, Peranakan Chinese and Baweanese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QK1gCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|date=14 October 2015|publisher=ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute|isbn=978-981-4519-67-0|pages=24–}}</ref> On trade front their bilateral trade volume stands at $10.5 billion and is poised to reach $25 billion by 2020.

Following the visit by then Prime Minister [[Najib Razak]] in 2017, both India and Malaysia agreed to expand co-operation in new chapter in areas like infrastructures development and building of smart cities.
Many in the Indian government and their community feel the ties under 7th Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir are decreasing since he favours [[Pakistan]].<ref name="expand">{{cite web|url=http://www.livemint.com/Politics/4tEemcpjLUDkmju7n35HYJ/India-Malaysia-vow-to-strengthen-economic-ties.html |title=India, Malaysia vow to strengthen economic ties |author=Elizabeth Roche |publisher=Live Mint |date=1 April 2017 |access-date=2 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402042041/http://www.livemint.com/Politics/4tEemcpjLUDkmju7n35HYJ/India-Malaysia-vow-to-strengthen-economic-ties.html |archive-date=2 April 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

== History ==
=== Ancient relations ===
{{main|History of Malaysia#Early kingdoms|History of Indian influence on Southeast Asia|Indianised kingdoms}}

=== Modern history ===
Official diplomatic relations between both modern states was established in 1957, following the [[Federation of Malaya]] independence.<ref>[[Malaysia]] did not come into existence until 1963.</ref> Since then, both countries leaders has made several visits to each others.<ref name="relations">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianhighcommission.com.my/Bilateral.html|title=Bilateral Relations|publisher=High Commission of India in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia|access-date=3 March 2017}}</ref>
[[File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meeting the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 31, 2018.JPG|thumb|[[Prime Minister of India]] [[Narendra Modi]] and [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]] [[Mahathir Mohamad]] in [[Kuala Lumpur]], 31 May 2018 ]]
In 2020, following comments from Malaysian Prime Minister [[Mahathir Mohamad]] speaking in opposition to the revocation of [[Article 370 of the Constitution of India|Kashmir's special status]] and the passing of the [[Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019|Citizenship Amendment Act]], India imposed restrictions on Malaysian [[palm oil]] imports.<ref>{{cite news |title=Political chill at centre of India's curbs on Malaysian palm oil |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/political-chill-at-centre-of-indias-curbs-on-malaysian-palm-oil |access-date=18 January 2020 |work=The Straits Times |date=17 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> But the ousting of [[Mahathir Mohamad]] from the Malaysian Prime Minister's seat in late March had blown for a fresh reconciliation of ties when [[Muhyiddin Yassin]] which had climbed to power in the face of huge domestic and regional scrutiny for conducting a bypass of election rights of citizens, had signed a record deal with India to import 100,000 tones of rice.<ref>{{cite news |title=Malaysia signs record rice import deal with India |url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/05/17/exporters-malaysia-signs-record-rice-import-deal-with-india |access-date=18 May 2020 |work=The Star |date=17 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref> In response to this, The Indian government lifted any sort of trade bans placed on the imports of Malaysian palm oil, thus subsequently increasing the import volume to an all-time high average of 500,000 tones per month.<ref>{{cite news |title=India imports half a million tonnes of Palm Oil from Malaysia in October |url=https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/india-imported-half-million-tonnes-palm-oil-malaysia-october |access-date=14 November 2020 |work=The Edge Markets |date=13 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

== Economic relations ==
From 2000 to 2013, Malaysia is the 19th largest investor in India with cumulative FDI inflows valued at US$618.37 million. More than US$6 billion Malaysian investments also come in the form of telecommunications, healthcare, banking and construction projects.<ref name="relations"/> Trade between the two countries has increased from just US$0.6 billion in 1992 to US$13.32 billion in 2012. Beside that, Indian industrial, IT and healthcare companies also investing in Malaysia along with around 150,000 Indians (including 10,000 Indian expatriates) skilled and semi-skilled workers been employed in the country in the sectors of IT, manufacturing and banking.<ref name="relations"/> Malaysian companies as well participating in many infrastructure projects across [[States and union territories of India|different Indian states]].<ref name="expand"/>

In 2017, India and Malaysia signed a new business deal amounting to U$36 billion with the exchange of 31 business [[memorandum of understanding]] (MoUs), the largest in the history of economic relations between the two countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/04/04/mega-trade-deals-agreed-historic-day-as-malaysia-and-india-ink-pacts-worth-rm15868bil/|title=Historic day as Malaysia and India ink pacts worth RM158.68bil|author=Paul Gabriel|work=The Star|date=4 April 2017|access-date=4 April 2017}}</ref> There is also a Malaysia India Business Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mibc.com.my/|title=Home|publisher=Malaysia India Business Council|access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref>

== Education relations ==
Between the 1960s and 1970s, around 30,000 Malaysian students have studied in Indian educational institutions, mostly in the medical field, with over 30% of the doctors in Malaysia today having been educated in India.<ref name="education">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianhighcommission.com.my/education_cooperation.html|title=Cooperation in the Field of Education|publisher=High Commission of India in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia|access-date=3 March 2017}}</ref> The Indian government also provides scholarship to Malaysian students. Due to many Malaysian medical students' need to pursue their education in India, the Manipal Global Education Group agreed to set up their campuses in Malaysia.<ref name="education"/>

== Security relations ==
Since before the formation of Malaysia, many of the country security forces members are trained in India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianhighcommission.com.my/Defence.html|title=Defence co-operation|publisher=High Commission of India in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia|access-date=3 March 2017}}</ref> In counter to the growing Chinese influence, India has expressed to increase military and security co-operation with Malaysia.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

== See also ==
* ''[[Raja Malaya Simha]]''
* [[Malaysian Indians]]

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== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|last=Cœdès|first= George|author-link= George Cœdès|editor= Walter F. Vella|others= trans.Susan Brown Cowing|title= The Indianized States of Southeast Asia|year= 1968|publisher= University of Hawaii Press|isbn= 978-0-8248-0368-1}}
* Lokesh, Chandra, & International Academy of Indian Culture. (2000). Society and culture of Southeast Asia: Continuities and changes. New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan.
* [[R. C. Majumdar]], Study of Sanskrit in South-East Asia
* R. C. Majumdar, ''India and South-East Asia'', I.S.P.Q.S. History and Archaeology Series Vol. 6, 1979, {{ISBN|81-7018-046-5}}.
* R. C. Majumdar, ''Suvarnadvipa'', ''Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East'', Vol.II, Calcutta,
* R. C. Majumdar, ''Hindu Colonies in the Far East'', Calcutta, 1944, {{ISBN|99910-0-001-1}} Ancient Indian colonisation in South-East Asia.
* R. C. Majumdar, History of the Hindu Colonization and Hindu Culture in South-East Asia
* {{cite book|author=Daigorō Chihara|title=Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wiUTOanLClcC|year=1996|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-10512-3}}

== External links ==
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* [http://www.indianhighcommission.com.my/ High Commission of India in Malaysia]
* [http://www.kln.gov.my/web/ind_new-delhi/ High Commission of Malaysia in India]

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