India

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. A peninsula and subcontinent of southern Asia south of the Himalaya Mountains, occupied by India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
2. A country of southern Asia covering most of the Indian subcontinent. Aryans from the northwest invaded c. 1500 BC, pushing Dravidian and other peoples to the south. Most of India was unified by the emperor Asoka in the 3rd century BC. It experienced a golden age in the 4th and 5th centuries AD before being invaded c. 1000 by Muslims and later by the Mongol conqueror Baber, who established the Mogul empire (1526-1857). Various European powers established trading posts in the 16th and 17th centuries, with the British assuming authority over India in 1857. In the 20th century, India gained its independence from Great Britain (1947) following a campaign of civil disobedience led by the pacifist Mohandas Gandhi. Its concomitant partition into the separate countries of India and Pakistan resulted in a tumultuous migration of Muslims to Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs to India in which approximately one million people died. New Delhi is the capital and Mumbai (Bombay) the largest city. Population: 1,130,000,000.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In an attributive use: Indian; pertaining to India or the East Indies; made in, named from, or connected with India: as, India goods; the India trade. In English law or usage India generally means “all territories and places within her Majesty's dominions which are subject to the Governor-General of India.” The principal territories under British administration are Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Northwestern Provinces, Central Provinces. Panjȧb, Assam, and Burma. Many native states are under British protection.

Wiktionary

1. n. The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
2. n. The territory east of the river Indus and south of the Himalaya mountains (formerly also known as Hindustan)
3. n. Country in South Asia (Bharat). Official name: Republic of India.
4. n. Formerly applied to America, also plural Indies (obsolete)
5. n. The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947