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'''Indo-GDR Friendship Association''' was an organisation based in [[India]], working for strengthening relations between India and the [[German Democratic Republic]]. It appears to have been supported or led by members of the then ruling Congress party in India, particularly during its Leftist phase, under part of the leadership of [[Indira Gandhi]]. Active among its members were some prominent leaders of the then ruling Congress in India, and possibly other left leaning politicians as well.

==Branches, journal==
The Indo-GDR Friendship Association or Society had branches in Delhi (1966), Nellore (1963), and it had a journal called ''Recognition'', published around 1969 and thereabouts.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Weidemann|first1=Diethelm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=me-1AAAAIAAJ&q=INdo-GDR+Friendship+Association|title=India-GDR Relations: A Review|last2=Gupta|first2=N. L.|date=1980|publisher=Kalamkar Prakashan|language=en}}</ref>

==Books published==
Books such as ''20 Years of India-GDR Relations: An Anthology'' were published by the All India Indo-GDR Friendship Association in 1974.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oPG1AAAAIAAJ|title=20 Years of India-GDR Relations: An Anthology|date=1974|publisher=All India Indo-GDR Friendship Association|language=en}}</ref>

==Tours to the GDR==
Writing in ''Women on the March'', published for the women's front of the [[All India Congress Committee]]
<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bBBDAAAAYAAJ&q=INdo-GDR+Friendship+Association|title=Women on the March|date=1976|publisher=Smt. Mukul Banerjee for the Women's Front of All India Congress Committee|language=en}}</ref> Ahalya Gagoi writes that in 1975 a "delegation of All India Indo-GDR Friendship Association, consisting of educationists, lawyers and trade unionists visited the German Democratic Republic" and her "subject of special study was the Socialist System of Education in [the] GDR". Their 19-day visit through the GDR took them through Berlin, Weimar, Erfurt, Sommerda, Magdeburg, Dresden and Potsdam.

==Background==
Details of the India-GDR relationship of those times is discussed by Sukhada Tatke in ''The Mint''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tatke|first=Sukhada|date=2017-07-22|title=The Stasi's interest in India: From love affairs to Indira Gandhi|url=https://www.livemint.com/Sundayapp/ioNmA2kbrCPOOVao2aZWCP/The-Stasis-interest-in-India-From-love-affairs-to-Indira-G.html|access-date=2021-03-06|website=mint|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*''20 Years of India-GDR Relations: An Anthology''. [[New Delhi]]: All India Indo-GDR Friendship Association, 1974.

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[[Category:East Germany friendship associations]]
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