East India (disambiguation)

East India is a region of India consisting of the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Orissa.

East India may also refer to

• East Indies, a term used by Europeans from the 16th century onwards to identify what is now known as South Asia and Southeastern Asia
• East India Company, an English joint-stock company founded in 1600
• East India Docks, a small group of docks in the Blackwall area of East London
  • East India DLR station, a railway station in East London

East Indian may refer to

• East Indians, a Marathi-speaking, Roman Catholic ethnic group in Mumbai
• East Indians, a term used in North America to refer to Indian people in general, in order to distinguish them from Native Americans who are sometimes referred to as Indians.
• Indo-Caribbeans, residents of Caribbean countries descended from migrants from the Indian subcontinent

See also

• Indian subcontinent
• Dutch East India Company, founded in 1603
• French East India Company, founded in 1664
• Swedish East India Company, founded in 1731
• Portuguese East India Company, founded in 1628
• Dutch East Indies, the Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II