🌏 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 Pakistan
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1960🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
The Indus Waters Treaty
With the World Bank's help, India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty, which has survived despite later conflicts.
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1965–66⚔ Wars & conflicts
The 1965 war and Tashkent
India and Pakistan fought a war in 1965 and signed the Tashkent Agreement in 1966.
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December 1971⚔ Wars & conflicts
The liberation of Bangladesh
The India–Pakistan war of December 1971 ended with the surrender of Pakistani forces in East Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh.
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1972🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
The Simla Agreement
India and Pakistan signed the Simla Agreement in 1972.
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1988🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
No attacks on nuclear installations
India and Pakistan agreed not to attack each other's nuclear installations and facilities.
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1999⚔ Wars & conflicts
The Lahore bus and Kargil
Prime Minister Vajpayee took a bus to Lahore in February 1999 to sign a peace declaration; the Kargil conflict followed in June–July.
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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.