🌏 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 Sri Lanka
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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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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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1987🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
Indo-Sri Lanka Accord
India and Sri Lanka signed an accord, and the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was sent to Sri Lanka.
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December 1998🤝 Treaties & diplomacy
India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement
India and Sri Lanka signed a Free Trade Agreement.
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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.