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1895 - India

India, a name probably derived from that of the river Indus, often called Ind by the poets, an extensive country or region of Southern Asia, comprising in its largest acceptation not only India proper and Indo-China, but also at least the northernmost islands of the Indian (Malay) Archipelago, thus nearly corresponding in application to the popular but vague appellation EAST INDIES. In this extensive sense it was employed by the ancient Greeks and Romans. It more correctly designates an extensive empire belonging to the British crown, consisting of the great central peninsula of Southern Asia and a narrow strip along the E. side of the Bay of Bengal, between lat. 8° 4' and 36° 15' N. and lon. 66° 44' and 99° 30' E. A part of this empire thus belongs geographically to Indo China. It is bounded N. by the Himalaya Mountains, dividing it from Thibet and Toorkistan, W. by a range separating it from Afghanistan and Beloochistan, E. by parallel offshoots from the opposite extremity of the Himalayas, dividing it from Burmah and Siam, and on the other sides by the Indian Ocean...

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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