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India has several socio-political, historical, and geographical meanings. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Greater India
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 Dark blue: the Indian subcontinent, Light Blue: Other countries culturally linked to India, notably Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia and Malaysia, Purple: Regions not included in Indosphere, but with significant current or historical Indian cultural influence, notably Afghanistan, Tibet, and Yunnan province of China. Greater India is another term sometimes used to describe the region between Central Asia in the North and tropical Indonesia in the South, and from the borderlands of Persia to Tibet and western China, which has had a significant Indian influence on its culture and civilization, including religious thought, language, art and literature. It has been suggested that Undivided India be merged into this article or section. ...
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Satellite image of the Indian subcontinent Map of South Asia (see note) This article deals with the geophysical region in Asia. ...
Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་; Wylie: Bod; Lhasa dialect IPA: [; Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 西è—, Hanyu Pinyin: XÄ«zà ng; also referred to as è—区 (Simplified Chinese), è—å€ (Traditional Chinese), Zà ngqÅ« (Hanyu Pinyin), having the two names different connotations; see Name section below) is a plateau region in Central Asia and the...
(Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; literally south of the clouds) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the far southwestern corner of the country. ...
Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ...
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Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་; Wylie: Bod; Lhasa dialect IPA: [; Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 西è—, Hanyu Pinyin: XÄ«zà ng; also referred to as è—区 (Simplified Chinese), è—å€ (Traditional Chinese), Zà ngqÅ« (Hanyu Pinyin), having the two names different connotations; see Name section below) is a plateau region in Central Asia and the...
This socio-cultural region is now part of the modern nations of (from the west): Iran (Seistan-Balochistan province), Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, the trans-Tsangpo and Yunnan regions of China, 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.
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Officially, it is a term which refers to the major part of the South Asia which comprised the British Raj, and included the current sovereign states of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Undivided India did not include all geographical regions and nations of the South Asia like Nepal and Bhutan, but included most of the Princely states of India. This article is about the geopolitical region in Asia. ...
The flag of British India British India, circa 1860 The British Raj (Raj in Hindi meaning Rule; from Sanskrit Rajya) was the British rule between 1858 and 1947 of the Indian Subcontinent, which included the present-day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Burma (Myanmar), whereby these lands were under the colonial...
This article is about the geopolitical region in Asia. ...
The flag of British India British India, circa 1860 The British Raj (Raj in Hindi meaning Rule; from Sanskrit Rajya) was the British rule between 1858 and 1947 of the Indian Subcontinent, which included the present-day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Burma (Myanmar), whereby these lands were under the colonial...
Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme political (e. ...
A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince and is thus a principality taken in the broad sense. ...
References to undivided India are found in some legal enactments including India’s Citizenship Act, 1955, which states that for the meaning of undivided India [1] (in the context of this Act), the undivided India means India as defined in the Government of India Act 1935, as originally enacted. There are innumerable other references to undivided India, in a variety of contexts, but mostly indicating India with boundaries as it existed just before the partition of India into India and Pakistan. 24. ...
Britains holdings on the Indian subcontinent were granted independence in 1947 and 1948, becoming four new independent states: India, Burma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Pakistan (including East Pakistan, modern-day Bangladesh). ...
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The term Indian subcontinent largely corresponds to South Asia or Greater India, and is used in geographical or geological contexts rather than political or historical ones. Satellite image of the Indian subcontinent Map of South Asia (see note) This article deals with the geophysical region in Asia. ...
Satellite image of the Indian subcontinent Map of South Asia (see note) This article deals with the geophysical region in Asia. ...
Indosphere -
Indosphere is a term, defined as "a socio-political sphere subsuming those countries, cultures, and languages that have historically come under influence from the politics, culture, religion, and languages of India (notably, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma)." [2] Dark blue: the Indian subcontinent, Light Blue: Other countries culturally linked to India, notably Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia and Malaysia, Purple: Regions not included in Indosphere, but with significant current or historical Indian cultural influence, notably Afghanistan, Tibet, and Yunnan province of China. ...
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The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term used to describe lands of South and Southeast Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and also Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.[citation needed] The Indies, on the display globe of the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term used to describe lands of South and Southeast Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives...
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The Indies, on the display globe of the Field Museum, Chicago The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term used to describe lands of South and South-East Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and...
British India (otherwise known as The British Raj) was a historical period during which most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, were under the colonial authority of the British Empire (Undivided India). ...
Satellite image of the Indian subcontinent Map of South Asia (see note) This article deals with the geophysical region in Asia. ...
West Papua is also the name of the province of Indonesia formerly called West Irian Jaya. ...
This article is about the geopolitical region in Asia. ...
Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...
The flag of British India British India, circa 1860 The British Raj (Raj in Hindi meaning Rule; from Sanskrit Rajya) was the British rule between 1858 and 1947 of the Indian Subcontinent, which included the present-day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Burma (Myanmar), whereby these lands were under the colonial...
The East Indies also include Iranian Baluchistan, Indochina, the Philippine Islands, Brunei, Singapore and East Timor.[citation needed] It does not, however, include Irian Jaya (West Papua), which is part of Melanesia. The Iranian part of Balochistan (or Baluchistan). ...
Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. ...
The Philippine islands is a commonly mistaken description for the Philippines. ...
Map showing Papua province in Indonesia Papua is a province of Indonesia comprising part of the western half of the island of New Guinea and nearby islands. ...
Map showing Melanesia. ...
The inhabitants of the East Indies are often called East Indians, distinguishing them both from inhabitants of the Caribbean which is also called the West Indies, and from the indigenous peoples of the Americas who are often called "Indians" or "American Indians." West Indian redirects here. ...
The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ...
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Undivided India Akhanda Bharata (literally "Undivided India") is a term that refers to regions that had a Hindu majority in the past, before the Islamic conquest and post-colonial partition. It includes all of present day Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,[citation needed] India, Nepal,[citation needed] Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia and Indonesia.[citation needed]. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Britains holdings on the Indian subcontinent were granted independence in 1947 and 1948, becoming four new independent states: India, Burma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Pakistan (including East Pakistan, modern-day Bangladesh). ...
The geographic frontiers of this region is held to range from the Himalayan region in the north to the ocean in the south, the borders of Bharatavarsha as outlined in the Vishnu Purana. Bharatavarsha (Bharat or Bharatvarsha) is the name in Sanskrit, Hindi and the languages of India for the World, but properly the Indian subcontinent. ...
The Vishnu Purana is one of the oldest of the Puranas (dating to maybe the 5th century), containing some 23,000 shlokas, presented as a dialogue between Parasara with his disciple Maitreya. ...
Akhanda Bharatam is the Sanskrit name for this region, emphasizing the predominance of Dharmic religions, implying a foreign and intrusive nature of Islam in the region, and is thus a concept of religious or ethnic nationalism rather than a of a political state. It is an important part of the ideology of Hindutva[citation needed] subscribed to by Nationalist Indians as well as Hindu nationalists and organizations such as Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and political parties such as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).[citation needed] map showing the prevalence of Dharmic (yellow) and Abrahamic (purple) religions in each country. ...
Islam (Arabic: ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ...
Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ...
Ethnic nationalism is the form of nationalism in which the state derives political legitimacy from historical cultural or hereditary groupings (ethnicities); the underlying assumption is that ethnicities should be politically distinct. ...
A state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules that govern the people in one or more societies, having internal and external sovereignty over a definite territory. ...
An ideology is an organized collection of ideas. ...
For Veer Savarkars book Hindutva, see Hindutva. ...
Hindu nationalism is a nationalist ideology that sees the modern state of the Republic of India as a Hindu nation, and seeks to preserve the Hindu heritage. ...
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Hindi: , English: ), also known as the Sangh or the RSS, is a nationalist Hindu organization in India known for its grass roots work. ...
Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box: A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (Hindi: , English: ), created in 1980, is one of the two major national political parties in India. ...
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