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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (2010). Raghavan, Srinath. India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia (2016). wide-ranging scholarly survey excerpt; Read, Anthony, and David Fisher. The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence (1999) detailed scholarly history of ...
The Seleucid dynasty controlled a developed network of trade with the Indian Subcontinent which had previously existed under the influence of the Achaemenid Empire.The Greek-Ptolemaic dynasty, controlling the western and northern end of other trade routes to Southern Arabia and the Indian Subcontinent, [5] had begun to exploit trading opportunities in the region prior to the Roman involvement ...
Rome in the East: The transformation of an empire. Routledge. London and New York. ISBN 0-415-11376-8. Begley, Vimala and de Puma, Richard Daniel (eds). (1991). Rome and India: The Ancient Sea Trade. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-12640-4. Carey, M. (1954). A History of Rome down to the reign of Constantine. 1st edition 1935,. 2nd ...
As of December 2012, Italy had an accumulated investment of €3.75 billion in India, or 9% of the total European Union FDI in India. [16] Indian investment in Italy grew from €584 million in 2004 to €10 billion in 2011. Italy accounted for 2.3% of India's total investment in the European Union. [16]
Although ancient India had a significant urban population, much of India's population resided in villages, whose economies were largely isolated and self-sustaining. [citation needed] Agriculture was the predominant occupation and satisfied a village's food requirements while providing raw materials for hand-based industries such as textile, food processing and crafts.
Rome dominated trade and influence over the world in the age of the Roman Empire but could not advance in their industrial and manufacturing processes. [53] This ultimately threatened the expanding trading and commerce industries that Augustus brought about, as well as the strong standing of the Empire in the eyes of the Romans and the world.
India in World War II — wartime 1940s in India and colonial British India, and part of the British Empire in World War II. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. Also see the list of governors-general of India, list of prime ministers of India and list of years in India.