Subkontinenteng Indio

An subkontinenteng Indio na bistado sa kasaysayan bilang Indya, iyo an pisyograpikal na rehiyon sa Habagatan na Asya, manonompongan sa Indian Plate, paibaba sa Kadagatan Indio gikan sa Himalaya. Sa heopolitika, iyan nasasakop an mayor na kadagaan gikan sa mga nasyon kan Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indya, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, asin Sri Lanka.[1] Minsan siring, an terminong "subkontinenteng Indio" asin "Habagatan na Asya" parating nagagamit nin magkaribay tanganing ipakahulugan an rehiyon, an terminong heopolitikal na Habagatan na Asya kun minsan kabali an Apganistan, na kun saen posibleng iklasipikar bilang Central Asyano.[2]

  1. "Indian subcontinent". New Oxford Dictionary of English (ISBN 0-19-860441-6) New York: Oxford University Press, 2001; p. 929: "the part of Asia south of the Himalayas which forms a peninsula extending into the Indian Ocean, between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. Historically forming the whole territory of Greater India, the region is now divided into three countries named Bangladesh, India and Pakistan."
  2. John McLeod, The history of India, page 1, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 0-313-31459-4; note: McLeod does not include Afghanistan in Indian subcontinent or South Asia;
    Jim Norwine & Alfonso González, The Third World: states of mind and being, pages 209, Taylor & Francis, 1988, ISBN 0-04-910121-8 Quote: ""The term "South Asia" also signifies the Indian Subcontinent""
    Raj S. Bhopal, Ethnicity, race, and health in multicultural societies, pages 33, Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-19-856817-7; Quote: "The term South Asian refers to populations originating from the Indian subcontinent, effectively India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka;
    Lucian W. Pye & Mary W. Pye, Asian Power and Politics, pages 133, Harvard University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-674-04979-9 Quote: "The complex culture of the Indian subcontinent, or South Asia, presents a tradition comparable to Confucianism."
    Mark Juergensmeyer, The Oxford handbook of global religions, pages 465, Oxford University Press US, 2006, ISBN 0-19-513798-1
    Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia, pages 3, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0-415-30787-2

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