🌏 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 Egypt
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From the sixth century BCE🚢 Trade
Routes across land and sea
Land and river routes crossed the subcontinent and ran overland into Central Asia and beyond, and by sea across the Arabian Sea to East and North Africa and West Asia.
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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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October 1960🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
Leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement
Nehru, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia and Tito of Yugoslavia formed the core leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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