A note on Phillipine-India relations in the post-independence period

Abstract

Philippine-India relations in the post-independent period started on a note of unenthusiastic cordiality, almost devoid of warmth and certainly lacking in intimacy. Consciously absent in these relations was the appeal to past cultural ties, commonly shared religious and social customs and traditions that had since characterized inter-Asian relations in general and India's ties with her neighbours in particular. This, although India's cultural influence on the Philippines was among the earliest influences that Filipinos acknowledged.