🌏 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 Britain
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By the thirteenth century🚢 Trade
Indian indigo in Europe
By the thirteenth century, Indian indigo was used by cloth makers in Italy, France and Britain to dye cloth.
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After 1600🧭 Travellers
Dutch, English and French travellers
After 1600, growing numbers of Dutch, English and French travellers came to India.
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Before 1765👑 Rulers & empires
Gold and silver from Britain
Before 1765 the East India Company bought goods in India by importing gold and silver from Britain.
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After 1857👑 Rulers & empires
The last Mughal exiled to Rangoon
After 1857 the last Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah II, was deposed by the British and exiled to Rangoon (Yangon, Myanmar).
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1956🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
The Suez crisis
When Britain attacked Egypt over the Suez Canal in 1956, India led the world protest against this neo-colonial invasion.
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How we check: each link is written from a passage in the linked NCERT chapter (one from the Government of Puducherry’s page), and our build fails unless key phrases from that passage are found in the chapter’s own text. Where sources differ on a date, only what they agree on is given.