INDIA PROPER, or HITHER INDIA, a large peninsula in Asia, bounded on the north by Usbee Tartary and Thibet; on the east, by another part of Thibet, the kingdom of Asem, Ava, and Pegu; on the south, by the bay of Bengal and the Indian ocean; and by the same ocean and Persia, on the west; situated between 66° and 92° of east longitude, and between 7° and 40° of north latitude: being about 2000 miles in length from north to south, and 1500 miles in breadth from east to west where broadest; though the southern part of the peninsula is not 300 miles broad. All the country within these limits is either subject or tributary to the great Mogul. It is frequently called Indoistan; a name supposed to be derived from the river Indus, on its western frontiers: it is also called the Mogulistan, from the imperial family now upon the throne, who trace their pedigree from Tamerlane, a Mogul Tartar. See MOGULS.
INDIA beyond the Ganges, is a country bounded by Thibet and Boutan on the north; by China, Tonquin, and Cochin-China, on the east; by the Indian Ocean, on the south; and by the hither India, the bay of Bengal, and the straits of Malacca, on the west: it is situated between 92° and 104° of east longitude, and between the equator and 30° degrees of north latitude: being near 2000 miles in length from north to south, but of a very unequal breadth; in which limits are comprehended the kingdoms of Asem, Ava, Pegu, Laos, Siam, Cambodia, and Malacca, governed by as many Indian princes; only the Dutch have usurped the dominion of Malacca.