  Rising economic instability and continuous evolution in international
relations demand a self-reliant trade and commodity flow networks at regional
scales to efficiently address the growing human needs of a nation. Despite its
importance in securing India's food security, the potential advantages of
inland trade remain unexplored. Here we perform a comprehensive analysis of
agricultural flows and contrast it with non-agricultural commodities flow
across Indian states. The spatiotemporal evolution of both the networks for the
period 2010 to 2018 was studied and compared using network properties along
with the total traded value. Our results show an increase in annual traded
volume by nearly 37 % and 87 %, respectively, for agriculture and
non-agriculture trade. An increase in total trade volume without a significant
increase in connectivity over the analyzed time-period is observed in both
networks, reveals the over-reliance and increased dependency on particular
export hubs. Our analysis further revealed a more homogeneous distribution
between import and export connection nodes for agriculture trade compared to
non-agriculture trade, where Indian states with high exports also have high
imports. Overall our analysis provide a quantitative description of Indian
inland trade as a complex network that could further us design resilient trade
networks within the nation.
