The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out.
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet
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Merriam-Webster
— used as a code word for the letter i
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Macmillan
— India is bounded in the north-west by Pakistan, north by China (Tibet), Nepal and Bhutan, east by Myanmar, and south-east, south and south-west by the Indian Ocean.
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Collins
— a republic in S Asia: history dates from the Indus Valley civilization (3rd millennium bc); came under British supremacy in 1763 and passed to the British Crown in 1858; nationalist movement arose under Gandhi (1869–1948); Indian subcontinent divided into Pakistan (Muslim) and India (Hindu) in 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth in 1950.
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1 use of ‘India’ in A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle