- Indostan
Indostan, or as it used to be called, the 'Indostanic
Peninsula ', is the former name of the region inSouth Asia comprised ofIndia ,Pakistan ,Bangladesh ,Sri Lanka ,Maldives , and theHimalayan states Bhutan andNepal . Their collective historical background may be spoken of as "“the Indian Civilization”", and sets these countries apart from the rest of the Asian continent.The term Indostan was in common use during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today it is regarded as an
archaism .See also
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Robert Orme
*Hindustan External links
* [http://www.cs.wwc.edu/~aabyan/Poetry/blindmen.html "The Six Blind Men of Indostan" by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)]
* [http://www.amap4all.com/product_info.php/cPath/284/products_id/5463 A general map of Indostan ]
* [http://www.globecorner.com/t/t41/20506.php A map of Indostan by Major James Rennell (1778)]
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