🌏 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 Southeast Asia
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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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Fourteenth century🚢 Trade
Indian goods in demand abroad
Ibn Battuta noted that Indian manufactures were in great demand in West Asia and Southeast Asia; ikat weaving patterns were adopted in Southeast Asia too.
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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.
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After 1857👑 Rulers & empires
The last Mughal exiled to Rangoon
After 1857 the last Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah II, was deposed by the British and exiled to Rangoon (Yangon, Myanmar).
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October 1960🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
Leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement
Nehru, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia and Tito of Yugoslavia formed the core leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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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.