Foreign trade of India
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Foreign trade in India includes all imports and exports to and from India. At the level of Central Government it is administered by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Foreign trade accounted for 48.8% of India's GDP in 2018.
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[edit]- Nearly all the evidence of Harappan relations with the West has been brought to light in foreign territories (the Persian Gulf, Mesopotamia, Iran) and not in the Indus territories.
- Henri-Paul Francfort, quoted from Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
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[edit]- O Soma, from every side pour forth four seas filled with a thousand-fold riches.
- Rigveda 9, 33, 6, as translated in B. B. Lal, "Can the Vedic people be identified archaeologically?–An approach", Indologica Taurinensia, 31 (2005), p. 181
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[edit]- It is clear however that the products of India which entered long-distance trade were of a great, seemingly infinite, variety and that they were quite commonly expensive or precious.
- Wink A, Al-Hind, The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Volume 1, p. 60
