🌏 India and the World
Five thousand years of links
Trade with Mesopotamia and Rome, Buddhism’s journey across Asia, travellers from China, Morocco and France, colonial rule, and India’s relations since independence — every link from an NCERT chapter. Click a country on the map.
Maps show India’s boundaries as officially depicted by the Government of India. Country shapes are today’s, for orientation only.
India and Afghanistan
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Harappan times🚢 Trade
Harappans in Afghanistan
Harappan finds reach as far as Afghanistan, and traces of canals survive at the Harappan site of Shortughai there.
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Mauryan period👑 Rulers & empires
Greek accounts of the Mauryas
Megasthenes, a Greek ambassador, lived at Chandragupta Maurya's court; Greek sources say the Mauryan army had 600,000 foot-soldiers. Mauryan control reached as far northwest as Afghanistan.
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Asoka's reign🎨 Art & culture
Asoka's edicts in Greek and Aramaic
In Afghanistan, Asoka's inscriptions were written in the Aramaic and Greek scripts.
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Mughal period🚢 Trade
Overland trade with Afghanistan
Tribes such as the Lohanis in the Punjab carried on overland trade between India and Afghanistan.
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2007🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
Afghanistan joins SAARC
Afghanistan became a member of SAARC.
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