🌏 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 Maldives

  1. Mughal period🚢 Trade

    Ships to Pegu, Siam and Ceylon

    A seventeenth-century account describes ships carrying goods of ‘Indostan’ every year to Pegu and Tanasserri (Myanmar), Siam (Thailand), Ceylon and the Maldives.

  2. November 1988🤝 Treaties & diplomacy

    Help for the Maldives

    When mercenaries attacked the Maldives, India's air force and navy responded quickly to the Maldives' request for help.

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