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Definition of East India
1. Noun. A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia.
Geographical relationships: Curry
Terms within: Sunda Islands, Borneo, Kalimantan
Generic synonyms: Archipelago
Group relationships: Pacific, Pacific Ocean
Member holonyms: East Indian, Malay, Malayan
Derivative terms: East Indian
Lexicographical Neighbors of East India
Literary usage of East India
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"The knowledge that the East India Company was prepared to come to the rescue ...
A few years before that time the forces of opposition to the East India ..."
2. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn (1889)
"1698, ami the old (the " London ") suspend«! from trading f г three years ; the
two were united 1702 New East India company established . ..."
3. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"Mr. Fox's East India Bills —Mr. Pitt's East India Bill. ... From the year 1767
till the year 1773, the East India Company was bound to pay to the public, ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"ALISON ON THE RULE OF THE East India COMPANY The war in the Punjab throws a bright
... The opposite system vas followed by the East India directors and Lord ..."
5. The American Revolution by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1905)
"... and save the East India Company. The demand of the American market for tea
was already enormous. The most portable and easily prepared of beverages, ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Elphinstone, Sir John Malcolm, and Lord Clare, and also of the court of directors
of the East India Company. In those days the superintendence of the police ..."
7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"C ; RECORDS OF THE East India COMPANY.» By STEPHEN WHEELER. THE first letter-book
of the East ludia Company, never before in type, contains a mass of ..."
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