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India recognized Lithuania (along with the other Baltic States, Latvia, and Estonia) on September 7, 1991, after independence. Diplomatic relations between India and Lithuania were established on 25 February 1992.
Lithuania opened its Embassy in New Delhi on July 1, 2008, and has three honorary consulates in India, i.e., in Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata. The Embassy of India in Warsaw was concurrently accredited to Lithuania till March 2023 with an honorary consulate in Vilnius since 2015.
Indian Embassy was established in Vilnius in March 2023.
India's first contact with Lithuania was through LithuanianChristian missionaries who traveled to India in the 16th century. Lithuanian interest in India grew in the 19th century after the similarity betweenSanskrit andLithuanian was discovered.[1] Among thelanguages of Europe, Lithuanian is grammatically closest to Sanskrit. Lithuanians regard their language to be the oldest livingIndo-European language.[1][2][3]
Vydūnas, known as theMahatma Gandhi andSri Aurobindo of Lithuania, was interested inIndian philosophy, and created his own philosophical system closely based on theVedanta. Vydunas stated that Lithuanian spiritual culture, prior to the introduction ofChristianity, shared similarities withHinduism, including the concept oftrimūrti.[1]
In 2022-23, the bilateral trade between India and Lithuania stood at US$ 471.68 million. India's top export products to Lithuania include: pharmaceutical products, electrical machinery & equipment, fish & other seafood, plastic products and textiles. India's top import products from Lithuania include: Iron & Steel, Misc. chemical products, rubber and articles thereof, animal & vegetable fats and oils, wood products, electrical machinery and equipment, etc.
There is growing interest in Lithuania forIndian dance andmusic,Bollywood,yoga,ayurveda, and the works ofRabindranath Tagore.[1][3] TheInternational Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is present in Lithuania.
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The Indian community in Lithuania is a small but vibrant and diverse group of people comprising students, professionals, businessmen and their families. This community has been growing steadily in recent years. There are around 4500 Indians. Majority of them are students pursuing higher education in Lithuania's universities especially in ICT, Engineering and Life Sciences.
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