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'''Indijski potkontinent'''{{Efn|Ponekad se jednostavno naziva "potkontinent" u južnoazijskom kontekstu.|naziv=Ime|grupa=Napomene}} jest [[fiziografska regija]] u [[Južna Azija|južnoj Aziji]], uglavnom smještena na [[Indijska ploča|Indijskoj ploči]], koja se sa [[Himalaji|Himalaja]] pruža prema jugu u [[Indijski okean]]. [[Geopolitika|Geopolitički]], obuhvata velike kopnene mase zemalja [[Bangladeš]]a, [[Butan]]a, [[Indija|Indije]],  [[Maldivi|Maldiva]], [[Nepal]]a, [[Pakistan]]a, i [[Šri Lanka|Šri Lanke]].<ref name="Oxford">"Indian subcontinent". ''New Oxford Dictionary of English'' ({{ISBN|0-19-860441-6}}) New York: [[Oxford University Press]], 2001; 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."</ref><ref name="dkumar8892">{{Cite book|last=Dhavendra Kumar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BLLmbgt8wNgC&pg=PA889|title=Genomics and Health in the Developing World|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-19-537475-9|page=889}}</ref><ref name="pirbhai143">{{Cite book|last=Mariam Pirbhai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EsCZZ3K6-uYC&pg=PA14|title=Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture: Novels of the South Asian Diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0-8020-9964-8|page=14}}</ref><ref name="mmann2">{{Cite book|last=Michael Mann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uh0cBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT13|title=South Asia's Modern History: Thematic Perspectives|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2014|isbn=978-1-317-62445-5|pages=13–15}}</ref> Iako se termini "indijski potkontinent" i "južna Azija" često koriste naizmjenično za označavanje regiona, geopolitički termin [[Južna Azija|Južne Azije]] često uključuje [[Afganistan]], što se ne smatra dijelom potkontinenta.<ref name="mcleodplus">John McLeod, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8Y3MH3dj6MC&pg=PA1 The history of India]'', page 1, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, {{ISBN|0-313-31459-4}}; note: McLeod does not include Afghanistan in Indian subcontinent or South Asia;<br /><br />Jim Norwine & Alfonso González, ''The Third World: states of mind and being'', pages 209, Taylor & Francis, 1988, {{ISBN|0-04-910121-8}} Quote: ""The term "South Asia" also signifies the Indian Subcontinent""<br /><br />Raj S. Bhopal, ''Ethnicity, race, and health in multicultural societies'', pages 33, Oxford University Press, 2007, {{ISBN|0-19-856817-7}}; Quote: "The term South Asian refers to populations originating from the Indian subcontinent, effectively India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka;<br /><br />Lucian W. Pye & Mary W. Pye, ''Asian Power and Politics'', pages 133, Harvard University Press, 1985, {{ISBN|0-674-04979-9}} Quote: "The complex culture of the Indian subcontinent, or South Asia, presents a tradition comparable to Confucianism."<br /><br />Mark Juergensmeyer, ''The Oxford handbook of global religions'', pages 465, Oxford University Press US, 2006, {{ISBN|0-19-513798-1}}<br /><br />Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal, ''Modern South Asia'', page 3, Routledge, 2004, {{ISBN|0-415-30787-2}}</ref>