India (disambiguation)
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India, officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia.
India may also refer to:
Geography and culture
- The entire Indian subcontinent, inclusive of India's neighboring countries
- Greater India or the Indies, a former name used collectively for all of south and southeast Asia
- The Indies or East Indies, the islands of Greater India
- The West Indies, the islands of the Caribbean
- India Meridionalis ("South India"), a phantom peninsula formerly believed to lie east of Malaysia
- The Three Indias, sometimes including Ethiopia or the Americas
- India Superior and Alta India ("Upper India"), an area of this peninsula and/or the Americas
- India, Texas, an unincorporated community in the United States
History
The term India has historically also been used to refer to:
- Epic India, prehistoric India as described in mythological epics
- Mahajanapada, the ancient kingdoms and republics of India
- Herodotus's India, a legendary land prior to Alexander's invasions
- Hindustan, a name used for medieval India and still sometimes used for modern India
- British Raj, officially known as the Indian Empire
- Former Dominion of India or Union of India (1947 to 1950), the Republic of India before the adoption of its constitution
- India (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province), a historical ecclesiastical province of the Church of the East
Music
- La India (born 1969), salsa singer from Puerto Rico
- India Arie (born 1975), American singer, songwriter, producer and musician
- Índia (Gal Costa album), 1973
- India? (Suns of Arqa album), 1984
- India (Vega album), 2003
- India (Xandria album), 2005
- "India", a track on Impressions by John Coltrane
- "India", a track on Tribe by Sadist
- "India", a track on The Psychedelic Furs' self-titled album
- "India", a track on Puressence's self-titled album
- "India", a song by Roxy Music on the 1992 album Avalon (Roxy Music album)
- "India", a track on Virtuoso by Edvin Marton
Other uses
- India (given name), a personal name
- India (actress) (born 1977), pornographic actress, singer and rap artist
- India (cat) (1990–2009), George W. Bush's pet cat
- India (Battle honour), a battle honour awarded to regiments of the British Army between 1787 and 1826
- India class submarine, a military submarine design of the Soviet Union
- India tag, an item of stationery
- Inđija, a town in Serbia whose name means "India" in archaic Serbian
- India, a village in Butor Commune, Transnistria
- The letter "I" in the NATO phonetic alphabet and the Federal Aviation Administration aviation phonetic letters
See also
- Pakistan, Burma/Myanmar and Bangladesh, historically parts of India
- Names of India
- Indian (disambiguation)
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