↑"Indian subcontinent". New Oxford Dictionary of English (Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-860441-6), 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."
↑John McLeod, The history of India (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 0-313-31459-4), 1; sed McLeod Afghaniam ex subcontinente Indica et Asia Meridiana excludit. ¶ Jim Norwine et Alfonso González, The Third World: states of mind and being (Novi Eboraci: Taylor & Francis, 1988, ISBN 0-04-910121-8), 209: "The term 'South Asia' also signifies the Indian Subcontinent." ¶ Raj S. Bhopal, Ethnicity, race, and health in multicultural societies (Oxoniae: Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-19-856817-7), 33: "The term South Asian refers to populations originating from the Indian subcontinent, effectively India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka." ¶ Lucian W. Pye et Mary W. Pye, Asian Power and Politics (Camtabrigiae Massachusettae: Harvard University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-674-04979-9), 133: "The complex culture of the Indian subcontinent, or South Asia, presents a tradition comparable to Confucianism." ¶ Mark Juergensmeyer, The Oxford handbook of global religions (Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press US, 2006, ISBN 0-19-513798-1), 465. ¶ Sugata Bose et Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia (Novi Eboraci: Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0-415-30787-2), 3.
↑Baker at Chapman 2002: 10ff: "This greater India is well defined in terms of topography; it is the Indian sub-continent, hemmed in by the Himalayas on the north, the Hindu Khush in the west and the Arakanese in the east."