Insular South Asia

"Island South Asia" redirects here. For the broader region including Coastal South Asia, see Littoral South Asia.

Not to be confused with Insular India.

A depiction of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the two small island nations in the narrow definition of Insular South Asia.

Insular South Asia is an ill-defined region, consisting at a minimum of all islands in the Southern region of Asia below the mainland Indian subcontinent, principally Sri Lanka, the Maldives and the Laccadives. ^{[1] [2] [3]} Other sources also apply the term to Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Malay Archipelago (encompassing the Southeast Asian countries — 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

• Maritime Southeast Asia
• Southern South Asia
• List of islands of India

References

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2. Scarre, Christopher (2009). The human past: World prehistory and the development of human societies. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 548. ISBN   9780500287804 . Retrieved 21 May 2024.
3. Lach, Donald Frederick; Kley, Edwin J. Van (1965). Asia in the Making of Europe. University of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0-226-46756-6.
4. "1. PROTECTED AREAS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: AN OVERVIEW". FAO. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
5. Goldammer, Johann G. (1 July 2006). "History of equatorial vegetation fires and fire research in Southeast Asia before the 1997–98 episode: A reconstruction of creeping environmental changes". Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 12: 13–32. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
6. 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.