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The islands of South Asia
"Island South Asia" redirects here. For the broader region including Coastal South Asia, see
Littoral South Asia.
Insular South Asia is an ill-defined region, consisting at a minimum of all islands in the Southern region of
Asia, principally
Sri Lanka, the
Maldives and the
Laccadives.
[1]
[2]
[3] Other sources also apply the term to the
Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia encompassing
Brunei,
Indonesia,
East Malaysia, the
Philippines,
Singapore and
East Timor.
[4]
[5]
It was an important region during the initial European colonisation of
South Asia and
Southeast Asia.
[6]
[3]
See also
References
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^ Scarre, Christopher (2009).
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Asia in the Making of Europe. University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
978-0-226-46756-6.
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^ Witek, John W. (1994). Lach, Donald F.; Van Kley, Edwin J. (eds.).
"The Seventeenth-Century European Advance into Asia--A Review Article". The Journal of Asian Studies. 53 (3): 867–880.
doi:
10.2307/2059733.
ISSN
0021-9118.
JSTOR
2059733.
S2CID
164121619.