The Silk Route System
Understand the overland and maritime corridors linking India with Persia, Arabia and China.
An online course on the Silk Routes, India’s frontier regions and its impact on today’s geopolitics.
ENROLL NOW · ₹1,900 →Follow caravans, kings and armies across the Himalayas and the high plateaus. From Bronze Age ports to twenty-first-century standoffs, see how a web of routes became one of the world’s most volatile frontiers.
Contemporary Relevance: Galwan, Doklam, Aksai Chin and CPEC are not isolated flashpoints. They sit on corridors that once carried textiles, horses, monks and mercenaries.
Explore how mountain passes, river valleys and trading towns shaped India’s relationship with Central Asia, Tibet and China.
The Silk Route was never a single road. It was a shifting, seasonal network of caravan tracks and maritime corridors linking the subcontinent with the world. Regions that now sound like remote frontiers— Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet—were once the heartbeat of this traffic.
In the mid-eighth century, four powers—the Karkota dynasty of Kashmir, the Tang Empire, the Tibetan Kingdom, and the Umayyad Caliphate— struggled for the trans-Himalayan corridors. This forgotten era set patterns of influence that echo across today’s maps.
In the twenty-first century, the same mountain passes frame border standoffs. Where caravans once moved textiles, we now see patrols and strategic highways like CPEC.
A concept-driven journey from Harappan docks to high-altitude border posts.
Understand the overland and maritime corridors linking India with Persia, Arabia and China.
Trace Harappan trade with Mesopotamia and how Bronze Age ports foreshadow later chokepoints.
Study how an upland kingdom turned into a Central Asian power player.
Follow monasteries, translators and merchants as Buddhism traveled to China and Tibet.
Examine how a Silk Route junction turned into a modern nuclear flashpoint.
Read Galwan and Doklam not as isolated crises, but as chapters in a 2,000-year struggle.
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