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This study examines Pliny's *Natural History* from a spatial perspective, focusing on the content relating to India and incorporating the digitised and annotated text available in the [TOPOSText project](https://topostext.org/). The research employs a variety of methodologies, including word frequency and collocation analysis, topic modelling and network analysis, with an integration of close reading practices. The multifaceted role that India plays in the narrative is highlighted in the study’s findings. It emerges not only as a geographical counterpart and repository of precious treasures, but also as an important trading partner of the Roman Empire and the Mediterranean, a context closely related to Pliny’s Stoic perspective on the natural world. In addition, the creation of a network graph linking place and person names associated with India across different books highlights the clustering patterns of different discussion focuses within the content structure. HTML version of the thesis: https://raw.githack.com/lizaodawn/NH_thesis/main/NHthesis_structure.html GitHub repository of the thesis: https://github.com/lizaodawn/NH_thesis