🌏 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 Rome (Italy)
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c. first century CE🚢 Trade
Gold coins like Rome's and Persia's
Kushana gold coins were close in weight to those of the Roman emperors and the Parthian rulers of Iran.
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Early centuries CE🚢 Trade
Roman coins in south India
Hoards of Roman coins have been found in south India: it was not part of the Roman Empire, but close trade connected them.
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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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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.