🌏 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 Korea and Japan
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Over the centuries☸ Religion & ideas
Buddhism travels
The Buddha's message spread through Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan, and through Sri Lanka across the seas to Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia.
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Since the early 1990s🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
Look East, Act East
India's ‘Look East’ policy (since the early 1990s) and ‘Act East’ policy (since 2014) brought closer economic ties with ASEAN, China, Japan and South Korea.
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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.