The future of English soldiers and officers of the Royal Indian Army and military forces, dislocated on the territory of Hindustan, became one of the important tasks during preparation for partition of India. Having left on dominion service a part of the officers and soldiers, the Great Britain has managed to solve in a complex a number of problems following from the given problem: to minimize negative consequences of transfer of authority and partition of India to two newly formed states, to become the guarantor of safety of borders of the Indian Union and Pakistan at the stage of their formation, to strengthen its own strategic positions in Southern Asia on the background of a new geopolitical situation after the Second World War.
In: Vestnik Rossijskogo universiteta družby narodov: naučnyj žurnal. Serija Meždunarodnye otnošenija = Series International relations, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 80-91
In the 21st century, the Russian Federation and the Republic of India have great scientific and educational potential. The particularly privileged strategic partnership between the two states is aimed, among other things, at the development and innovations of scientific and educational cooperation, which has stable traditions laid down in the second half of the last century. It was during this period that the first connections were established between students and youth of the two countries. The VI World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Moscow in 1957, was the starting point for building youth cooperation, the activities of the International Youth Tourism Bureau "Sputnik," and the first tourist trips of Soviet students to India. The relevance of the article is determined by the appeal of the interuniversity team of authors of the RUDN University, MGIMO University and Lipetsk State Pedagogical P. P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University to the topic that had not previously been the subject of comprehensive research either in Russia or in India. The purpose of this study is to analyze the goals, forms of organization and significance of the Soviet-Indian youth and student partnership in the late 1950s - early 1960s on the basis of materials from the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History that were not involved in scientific circulation. The authors use a constructivist approach demonstrating the connection between society and politics and revealing the impact of international cooperation on the institutionalization, development of scientific and educational partnership between the USSR and India at the interstate and interinstitutional levels. The Khrushchev "thaw" period laid the foundations for Soviet-Indian cooperation between the two states in the field of higher education, youth and student academic exchange and tourism. In the 21st century, the experience of the world festivals of youth and students, the work of the "Sputnik" bureau is relevant, since the Republic of India is one of the important and priority partners for the Russian Federation. Students of Modern Russia also face the task of establishing and developing academic and cultural ties with India, increasing the prestige of the country in the eyes of Indians and the whole world.
In the XXI century, the Russian Federation and the Republic of India have great scientific and educational potential. A particularly privileged strategic partnership between the two states and their leaders, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is aimed, among other things, at developing and innovating scientific and educational cooperation, which has stable traditions laid down in the second half of the XX century. The 75th anniversary of India's independence and the establishment of Soviet/Russian-Indian diplomatic relations, widely celebrated in both countries in 2022, emphasize the relevance of studying the history of cooperation between the two states in the field of science and higher education, its current state and prospects. One of the aspects of such a partnership is the Russian-Indian cooperation between regions and individual universities. In this practice-oriented article, based on the principle "not in general, but in particular", the authors characterize the experience of scientific and educational activities and international cooperation of the Oriental Studies Laboratory of the Lipetsk State Pedagogical University named after P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky with Indian publishing houses, the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi), participation in international forums and their organization, implementation of grant projects on Indian issues with the support of federal funds: the Presidential Grants Fund, the Fund of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), RGNF, RFBR, Russian scientific foundation. An important component of the laboratory's international cooperation is the reception of delegations and online contacts with the Embassy of the Republic of India in the Russian Federation since 2000. Until now.