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India is land famous for its knowledge , riches , spices and clothes , Some areas of india also connected to the parts of famous silk route from china to Italy .Ancient Indian border touches to the Persia in Central Asia , therefore conflicts between Persian empire and india was not unusual . In the 600 BC onwards Achaemenid empire began their invasions on their east and west borders i.e towards India and Greece .The North western part of india which was wealthy part  did not have any powerful kingdom like Magadh to bring the entire region under one organised kingdom. There were many small kingdoms who were fighting with each other .The Persian rulers took advantage of political instability in this region and begin their attacks on north west part of India. Cyrus what is the founder of Achaemenid empire in Iran he was the first ruler to attack on Indian border land and captured Gandara region( modern Afghanistan). Many Indian tribes living in  the west part of the Indus river ...

The  East India company also known as East India trading company or the British East India company was founded in 1600 AD ,it was formed to trade in Indian Ocean initially Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia. The company seized large part of Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia and Hong Kong. Originally East India company was termed as a "Governors and the company of merchants of London trading into the East Indies " it wanted to trade in cotton silk indigo sugar spices tea and opium. Later on East India Company captured , controlled and colonised almost all parts of South East Asia which consist modern Afghanistan ,Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka , Myanmar. First representatives of East India company Sir Thomas Row and Sir William Hawking came to India under the reign of Mughal Emperor JAHANGIR son of Emperor Akbar in  1608 by the ship Hector , Mughal Emperor Give east India company permission to establish Factory at Surat .No body had ever  imagined that with in 200 y...

 Ancient world has seen many advanced civilisations  Egyptian ,Chinese ,Mesopotamian and Indus Valley civilisation . Indus Valley civilisation was situated in Indian subcontinent around 3500 BC to 1500 BC these dates are not well established , as new discoveries in the field of archaeology are coming we are getting new timeline for Indus Valley civilisation .   Indus Valley civilisation also be named as Harppan civilisation because it was first founded in Harappa in 1924 A.D Under the leader ship of Sir John Marshal by Dr. R.D Banerjee and D.R Sahani . Total area covered by Indus Valley civilisation was near 1,60,000 km² comprising  Morden Afghanistan Pakistan and north west parts of India. More than 200 sites are already discovered in different parts of Indians of continent some of the major sites of Harappan civilisation are Harappa (Punjab) , Mohenjodaro (Sindh ) ,Chanhudaro (Sindh ) , Lothal (Gujrat)  , Rakhigrahi (Harayana) , Dholavira ( Gujrat ) ,Kalibanga...

We all know about the great God Hanuman omnipresent in most of the Indian Mythologies, great warrior, friend, saviour, superhero, devotee of lord Rama, destroyer of all evils, symbol of courage and strength but in china there is similar mythological legend called Sun Wukong/Monkey king having similar qualities like lord Hanuman immensely powerful, fast like lightning, immortal, spiritual, defender of spiritual and human realm and got power from Tao. Are they both symbol of same legend having different interpretations in different culture ?  Indian civilisation and Chinese civilisation! Two of the most ancient civilisations of the world still flourishing and surviving. India and china have strong cultural relations since the beginning of 2nd century and just like many Chinese travellers came to India in search of buddhist texts and knowledge, many Indian travellers also went to china to propagate buddhism. This cultural exchange continued for two millenniums and resulted in many sim...