Greater India
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Greater India is a term used to describe the region between Central Asia in the North and tropical Indonesia in the South,[1] and from the borderlands of Persia to Tibet.[2] This term's use began in the early 1800s and is still at times used today.
This socio-cultural region is now part of the modern nations of (from the west): Iran (Seistan-Balochistan province), Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Brunei, East Timor, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, the Mauritius, Maldives, Seychelles, Comoros and other islands of the Indian Ocean.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ rediff.com: Greater India's magnificent heritage
- ^ Rengal Chronologies: Greater India
- ^ Cambrige Journals: Imagining ‘Greater India’: French and Indian Visions of Colonialism in the Indic Mode
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