🌏 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 Russia (Soviet Union)
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1466–72🧭 Travellers
Afanasii Nikitin from Russia
The Russian traveller Afanasii Nikitin spent the years 1466–72 in India.
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1950s–60s🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
Non-alignment
In the Cold War India kept away from the military alliances led by the US and the Soviet Union, following a policy of non-alignment.
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August 1971🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship
India and the Soviet Union signed a Treaty of Friendship for 20 years.
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2001🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
Strategic partnership with Russia
More than 80 agreements have been signed between India and Russia as part of the Indo-Russian Strategic Agreement of 2001.
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