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[[File:Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov.jpg|thumb|Indian Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] and Uzbekistan President [[Islam Karimov]].]]
'''India–Uzbekistan relations''' refers to the international relations that exist between the [[India|Republic of India]] and the [[Uzbekistan|Republic of Uzbekistan]]. India has an embassy in [[Tashkent]]; Uzbekistan has an embassy in [[New Delhi]].

==History==
The 2 nations have has many historical ties, both of them being on the [[Silk Road]]. [[Babur]], the founder of the [[Mughal Empire]] which ruled India from 1526–1857, was born in [[Andijan]] in present-day Uzbekistan.

India's first Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] visited [[Tashkent]] and [[Samarkand]] during his state visit to the [[Soviet Union]] in 7–23 June 1955. He visited Tashkent again during his state visit in 6–12 September 1961.<ref name="The Delhi Declaration">{{cite book|last1=Sahai|first1=Shrinath|title=The Delhi Declaration, Cardinal of Indo-Soviet Relations: A Bibliographical Study|date=1990|publisher=Mittal Publications|page=320|isbn=9788170992264|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r3lhRuOJamwC|access-date=15 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title = Nehru's Soviet sojourn|url = http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/nehrus-soviet-sojourn/article7407454.ece|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 2015-07-11|access-date = 2015-12-15|issn = 0971-751X|language = en-IN}}</ref> Tashkent was the location of a historic meeting in January 1966 between Indian Prime Minister [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] and Pakistani President [[Muhammad Ayub Khan]]. The Soviet Union, represented by Premier [[Alexei Kosygin]] served as moderators. The Tashkent conference, under [[United Nations]], [[United States|American]] and Soviet pressure, compelled India to give away the conquered region in Pakistan and the 1949 ceasefire line in [[Kashmir]] bringing an end to the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]]. Prime Minister Shastri died in Tashkent, at 2 AM on the day after signing the [[Tashkent Declaration]], reportedly due to a heart attack, but people allege conspiracy behind the death. He was the first Prime Minister of India to die overseas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/soutikbiswas/2009/08/was_mr_shastri_murdered.html |title=Was Mr Shastri murdered |publisher=bbc.co.uk |access-date=31 May 2013}}</ref>

Uzbekistan declared its independence on 1 September 1991. The Consulate General of India in Tashkent had been opened on 7 April 1987. It was upgraded to an Embassy on 18 March 1992.<ref name="eoi.gov.in"/>

Timeline of State Visits:

* [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]] became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Uzbekistan on 23–25 May 1993.<ref>{{cite web|title=Annual Report 1993-94|url=http://mealib.nic.in/?2522?000|website=mealib.nic.in|publisher=MEA Library Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref>
* Prime Minister [[Manmohan Singh]] visited the country on 25–26 April 2006
* Uzbek President [[Islam Karimov]] has visited India several times; in 1991, 1994, 2000, 2005 and in May 2011.<ref name="eoi.gov.in">{{cite web|title=Bilateral Relations : India-Uzbekistan Relations|url=http://eoi.gov.in/tashkent/?2615?000|website=eoi.gov.in|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref>
* Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] visited Uzbekistan in July 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=India, Uzbekistan ink pacts to boost cooperation|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/prime-minister-narendra-modis-visit-to-uzbekistan/article7392482.ece|website=The Hindu|access-date=10 May 2016|language=en-IN|date=6 July 2015}}</ref>
* Karimov's successor, [[Shavkat Mirziyoyev]] visited [[New Delhi]] in Autumn 2018 and January 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tehelka.com/president-kovind-accords-ceremonial-welcome-to-uzbekistan-president-shavkat-mirziyoyev/|title = President Kovind accords ceremonial welcome to Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev | Tehelka}}</ref>

==Trade==
Bilateral trade between India and Uzbekistan stood at US$235 million in 2017-18.<ref name="eoi.gov.in"/>

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Relations of India and Uzbekistan}}
* [http://eoi.gov.in/tashkent/ Embassy of India in Tashkent, Uzbekistan]

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