Why is India called a subcontinent?
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Its so big like a conitnent but its not a continent. Asia is continent and its part of Asia so we call it sub continent.
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What's the difference? Well, one's from South Asia, one's from the Middle East. Get it?\n\nIndians call themselves Asian because technically they are. They are from the continent of Asia.
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As known, the Hindies were mainly captured by the British - Portuguese, Spaniards, etc., had some minor regions.\nWhenever the British are forced out of a place, they have always created such a situation that there is a chaos! \nSimilarly, when India was free and independent, the state was cut in three: India, Pakistan (West and East: known as Bangladesh).\nThe reason "discovered" was religious freedom! But still, in India there are millions of Muslims who either chose or did not get the proximity to fleet!\nIt is sad to see the two nation competing in a wild manner!
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The first Article of the Constitution of India, which deals with the official name, states that "India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states." Thus, not only in usage but officially India and Bharat are both accorded primary status. The name India is derived from the river Indus.\n\nThe original name of the river came from the fact that in the north-west of the subcontinent, there are seven main tributaries of the one river. The local inhabitants therefore called it Sapta-Sindhu, meaning the seven rivers. As the seven tributaries are part of the one river, the entire river system came to be known in time as Sindhu. In general, Sindhu also means any river or water body in Sanskrit.\n\nPersian explorers visited the area even in ancient times, and the Iranian 'h' is cognate with Sanskrit 's'. Thus Sindhu became Hindu. Similarly, Sanskrit Asura (a spirit, later an evil spirit) is cognate with Ahura, the Supreme God of the early Iranian people.\n\nThe name of the river entered Greek from Persian, with the loss of the initial 'h', to become Ίνδός Indos, from which the Greeks derived their name for the region, Ίνδια India. The Latin form of Indos is Indus, the name by which the river system is still known in the West. Its name was given to the entire subcontinent by the Romans, who adapted it to the current India.\n\nThe word India is the form used by Europeans over the ages.\n\nSindhu is also the Sanskrit term for Ocean and for any large water body. It would specifically mean the modern river Indus, if ancient Indic originated there. It could just mean "water dwellers" as well.\n\nInterestingly, the Vedas did not assign any particular name for India, although some scholars assert that references to Indu in the Rig Veda relate to India's present name. Many traditional literary/cultural works from around the globe lack definite terminology for their home culture as a political unit; China, Greece, and many other civilizations lacked fixed names for themselves in traditional literature of their early periods.\n\nIn the Matsya Purana 126, the length of India (Bharatavarsa) is 9,000 puranic yojanas, which is a good estimation.[1]\n\nListed by, among others, Colonel James Todd in his Annals of Rajputana, he describes the ancient India under control of tribes claiming descent from the Moon, or "Indu", and their influence in Trans-Indian regions where they referred to the land as Industhan. This explanation might serve better to explain the term Hindu. Having said that, ancient Greeks do mention the Indic tribes or related tribes (could be of Iranian origin or joint Indo-Iranian origin) inhabiting what is now Ukraine as Sindoi or Sindkoi.\n\nThe name India was known in Anglo-Saxon, and was used in King Alfred's translation of Orosius. In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered early modern English as Indie. The use of the name India dates from the 17th century onwards, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or Spanish or Portuguese. [2]\n\nBhārata\n Some people regard Emperor Bharata to be the first and only emperor to rule all of India. Shown here is the approximate extent of his reign, Bharatvarsha,Bhārata, sometimes Bhāratavarsha (Bhārat or Bhāratvarsha in Hindi) is the name in Sanskrit and many languages of India for northern India. The Hindi form is also an official name of the Republic of India, and possibly the earliest name given to the nation. (Article 1 of the Constitution of India - 'India that is Bharat shall be a Union of States.'). In Sanskrit, it is pronounced as [bʱaːrət̪ə] while in Hindi as [bʱaːrət̪\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_India
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It annoys me when people say there is continent called Australasia. Australasia is simply a geographic point. Oceania is not a continent. Aside from a region in FIFA for world cup soccer qualifiers we don't even use it in Australia. The continent is Australia. So I do agree with you. Oceania is not a continent and just for the record, Indonesia is in ASIA.
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Certainly Yes. They had "Indus valley civilization" - which is one of the oldest organized civilization and then the monarchy system took control. after that, britishers invaded india on the name of 'business' (because india was the richest country in the world at that time) and they, with the other invedors, looted and ruled for some centuries. after freedom, they have democracy. so now India is the world's largest democracy and also it is most diversed country in terms of religions. India is great !!
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There are a number of geographical reasons why India has diverse flora.\n\na) its diverse climate ranging from tropical jungle to the Thar desert to the Himalayas and Hindu Kush - this means that the plants have a wide range of climates to adjust to;\n\nb) there are also a range of flora zones on the Himalayas as you ascend the mountains.\n\nc) there are seperate floral areas on offshore islands.\n\nd) the diverse range of ecoregions encourage floral diversity.\n\nThe ecoregions of India include:\n\nTropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests\n\n    * Andaman Islands rain forests (India)\n    * Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests (India)\n    * Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests (India, Myanmar)\n    * Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests (India)\n    * Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal)\n    * Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (India, Bangladesh)\n    * Malabar Coast moist forests (India)\n    * Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests (British Indian Ocean Territory, India, Maldives)\n    * Meghalaya subtropical forests (India)\n    * Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar)\n    * Nicobar Islands rain forests (India)\n    * North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India)\n    * North Western Ghats montane rain forests (India)\n    * Orissa semi-evergreen forests (India)\n    * South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India)\n    * South Western Ghats montane rain forests (India)\n    * Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests (Bangladesh, India)\n    * Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (India)\n\nTropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests\n\n    * Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * Chota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * East Deccan dry evergreen forests (India)\n    * Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * Northern dry deciduous forests (India)\n    * South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests (India)\n\nTropical and subtropical coniferous forests\n\n    * Himalayan subtropical pine forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan)\n    * Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests (India, Myanmar)\n\nTemperate broadleaf and mixed forests\n\n    * Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal)\n    * Western Himalayan broadleaf forests (India, Nepal, Pakistan)\n\nTemperate coniferous forests\n\n    * Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal)\n    * Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests (India, Nepal, Pakistan)\n\nTropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands\n\n    * Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands (Bhutan, India, Nepal)\n\nMontane grasslands and shrublands\n\n    * Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal)\n    * Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe (Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan)\n    * Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (China, India, Pakistan)\n    * Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (India, Nepal)\n\nFlooded grasslands and savannas\n\n    * Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh (India, Pakistan)\n\nDeserts and xeric shrublands\n\n    * Deccan thorn scrub forests (India)\n    * Indus Valley desert (India, Pakistan)\n    * Northwestern thorn scrub forests (India, Pakistan)\n    * Thar desert (India, Pakistan)\n\nMangrove\n\n    * Godavari-Krishna mangroves (India)\n    * Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves (Pakistan)\n    * Myanmar coast mangroves (India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand)\n    * Sundarbans mangroves (Bangladesh, India)
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India comes from the word Sindhu( a name for the river Indus)>>converted to Indus river by the British and then the place came to be known as India.\n\nWhy the Britishers started calling it this way was because they couldnt pronounce it in any other way.India sounds anglisized and they wanted such a name for their colony.\n\nSindhu came to be known as Hindu and the place was called Hindustan by Moghuls.This was the name convinient for the muslim invaders.\n\nHowever,to put "the meaning of India" in one word, that word is yajna - sacrifice. The true meaning of sacrifice is the renunciation of the ego to the higher, universal Self. And that universal Self, which is to be found in our own deepest nature, is being, consciousness and joy. In total sacrifice lies total freedom. Yajna means giving up greed, taking from the earth only enough to meet our basic needs and returning as sacrifice what earth and nature so freely give. This eternal wisdom of India is so much needed in our time when materialism is dominating our culture.
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It means "Land", just as we write Greenland, England (Land of the Angles), Swaziland (Land of the Swazi tribe, Asian languages like Hindi use the suffix "stan" meaning "land." So Hindustan is "Land of the Hindus", Afghanistan, Land of the Afghans, but Pakistan is formed from an acronym of initials forming PAK and then "stan" for land. Strange but true.
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The ocean is located near india.
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India is the most powerful country in the world.
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Hi\n\nIndia's extraordinary history is intimately tied to its geography. A meeting ground between the East and the West, it has always been an invader's paradise, while at the same time its natural isolation and magnetic religions allowed it to adapt to and absorb many of the people who penetrated its mountain passes. No matter how many Persians, Greeks, Chinese nomads, Arabs, Portuguese, British and other raiders had their way with the land, local Hindu kingdoms invariably survived their depradations, living out their own sagas of conquest and collapse. All the while, these local dynasties built upon the roots of a culture well established since the time of the first invaders, the Aryans. In short, India has always been simply too big, too complicated, and too culturally subtle to let any one empire dominate it for long. \nThe first group to invade India were the Aryans, who came out of the north in about 1500 BC. The Aryans brought with them strong cultural traditions that, miraculously, still remain in force today. They spoke and wrote in a language called Sanskrit, which was later used in the first documentation of the Vedas.\n\nSo with so many cultures driving their roots, we have a diversity of tradition, culture and history.\n\nhope this helps
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you mean eurasia\nit's a mix between continent europe and continent Asia
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To be tecchnically accurate the largest Continent (single land mass with a continental shelf) is Eur-asia, since Europe and Aiusa are conjoined  it is only geo-politically accurate to refer to them as separate continents. They are in fact one land mass and therefore the largest continent.
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India is one of the most exotic places in the world that offers such a rich and ancient history, culture, music, art, religion and traditions.\n\nIndia gained its independence from the British rule in 1947 and is a fairly "young" republic. But with a population of over a billion people today, the country is plagued with poverty that seems insurmountable due to the corruption in government that remains unchecked, a lackluster economy, and perhaps an aftermath of their customary caste system.\n\nThere has been on-going border tension between India [majority Hindus] and its neighbor, Pakistan [majority Muslims] in that sub-continent part in Asia.\n\nOne thing I admire among its people is their manner of greeting each other--with both palms together in prayer form as they nod to greet--which symbolizes their 'RESPECT TO THE DEITY WITHIN' the other person. Ain't that so great?\n\nMore people should practice that tradition openly... And perhaps we will have a much better world to live in!
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due to partitioning india is divided in there countires, pakistan, india and bangladesh.\n\nif these countries were not partitioned there must be United States of India, more powerful than china. and the second super power after United Stated of America.
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India comprises most of the Indian subcontinent situated on the Indian Plate, the northerly portion of the Indo-Australian Plate.