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Insular South Asia

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A depiction of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the two small island nations in the narrow definition of Insular South Asia.^[1]

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]

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^ ^a ^b Dam Roy, S.; Krishnan, P.; Patro, Shesdev; George, Grinson; Velmurugan, A.; Kiruba Sankar, R.; Ramachandran, Purvaja (2017), Prusty, B. Anjan Kumar; Chandra, Rachna; Azeez, P. A. (eds.), "Wetlands of Small Island Nations in South Asia vis-à-vis the Mainland and Island Groups in India: Status and Conservation Strategies", Wetland Science : Perspectives From South Asia, New Delhi: Springer India, pp. 31–48, doi:10.1007/978-81-322-3715-0_2, ISBN 978-81-322-3715-0, retrieved 2024-01-09

^ 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.

^ ^a ^b Lach, Donald Frederick; Kley, Edwin J. Van (1965). Asia in the Making of Europe. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-46756-6.

^ 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.

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