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	'''Undivided India''' has several socio-political, historical, and geographical meanings.

	==Raj==
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	Officially, it is a term which refers to the major part of the ] which comprised the '''British Raj''', and included the current ] states of ], ], and ]. Undivided India did not include all geographical regions and nations of the South Asia like ] and ], but included most of the ] of India.

	References to undivided India are found in some legal enactments including India’s Citizenship Act, 1955, which states that for the meaning of ''undivided India'' (in the context of this Act), the ''undivided India means India as defined in the ], as originally enacted''. There are innumerable other references to undivided India, in a variety of contexts, but mostly indicating India with boundaries as it existed just before the ] into India and Pakistan.

	==Indies==
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	The '''Indies''' or '''East Indies''' (or '''East India''') is a term used to describe lands of ] and ] Asia, occupying all of the former ], the present ]n Union, ], ], ], ], the ], and also ], ] and ], which was last called the ] before independence.

	The East Indies also include Iranian ], ], the ], ], ] and ]. It does not, however, include ] (West Papua), which is part of ].

	The inhabitants of the East Indies are often called East Indians, distinguishing them both from inhabitants of the ] which is also called the ], and from the ] who are often called "Indians" or "American Indians."

	==Greater India==
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	], Light Blue: Other countries culturally linked to India, notably ], ], ], ], ] and ], Purple: Regions not included in Indosphere, but with significant current or historical Indian cultural influence, notably ], ], and ] province of ].]]

	'''Greater India''' is another term sometimes used to describe the region between ] in the North and tropical ] in the South, and from the borderlands of ] to ] and western ], which has had a significant ]n influence on its culture and civilizaton, including religious thought, language, art and literature.

	This socio-cultural region is now part of the modern nations of (from the west): Iran (Seistan-Balochistan province), Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, the trans-Tsangpo and Yunnan regions of China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Maldives, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Brunei, East Timor, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, the Mauritius, Maldives, Seychelles, Comoros and other islands of the Indian Ocean.

	==Indosphere==
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	'''Indosphere''' is a term, defined as "a socio-political sphere subsuming those countries, cultures, and languages that have historically come under influence from the politics, culture, religion, and languages of India (notably, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma)."

	==Akhanda Bharatam==

	'''Akhanda Bharatam''' (literally "Wide India") is supposedly the historic homeland of the ]s, before ] and colonial partition, which resulted in the subsequent ] of a significant number to ] and ]. It includes all of present day ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].

	The geographic frontiers of this region is held to range from the Himalayan region in the north to the ocean in the south. This is derived from the ] text of India.
	: '''Uttaram yad samudrasya himadreschaiva dakshinam'''
	: '''varsham tad Bharatam naama Bharati yatra santati'''

	Akhanda Bharatam is the Sanskrit name for this region. Hinduism and Buddhism are the predominant religions. The Indonesia-Malaysia region, the Pakistan-Afghanistan region and the Sistan-Balochistan region later were converted to Islam.

	Akhand Bharat is largely based on the concepts of ] or ] rather than a political ]. It is an important part of the ] ] of ] subscribed to by ] organizations such as ] (RSS) and ] such as the ] (BJP).

	==See also==

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