🌏 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 France
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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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Seventeenth century🧭 Travellers
Bernier and Tavernier
The French physician François Bernier wrote about Mughal India; the French jeweller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier travelled to India at least six times.
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1 November 1954🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
French settlements join India
France's possessions in India were transferred de facto to the Indian Union, and Puducherry became a Union Territory.
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