Central Asians in ancient Indian literature information
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Central Asia and Ancient India have long traditions of social-cultural, religious, political and economic contact since remote antiquity.[1] The two regions have common and contiguous borders, climatic continuity, similar geographical features and geo-cultural affinity. For millennia, there has been a flow of people, material and ideas between the two.
Physical map of Central Asia from the Caspian Sea to the west, to Inner Mongolia in the east.
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