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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
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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
East India is a region of India consisting of the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, and also the union territory Andaman and Nicobar Islands. West Bengal's capital Kolkata is the largest city of this region. The Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the country's third largest. The states of Odisha and West Bengal share some cultural and linguistic characteristics with Bangladesh. Bengali is the most spoken language of this region and it is also the second most spoken language in India after Hindi. Odia is the only language in east India accorded the status of a Classical Language of India. Together with Bangladesh, West Bengal formed the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal before partition in 1947. The historic region of Bengal which was ruled by Nawabs of Bengal comprises the present, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Bangladesh from where the British started their conquest of India. The modern state of Odisha was known as Kalinga, and Utkala in ancient times. It was ruled by mighty indigenous rulers of Mahameghavahana dynasty, Eastern Ganga dynasty and Gajapati Dynasty.
The bulk of the region lies on the east coast of India by the Bay of Bengal, and on the Indo-Gangetic plain. Jharkhand, on the Chhota Nagpur plateau, is a hilly and a heavily forested state rich in mineral wealth. Odisha is also a mineral rich state of India. The region is bounded by the Nepal and Sikkim Himalayas in the north, the states of Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on the west, the state of Andhra Pradesh in the south and the Bay of Bengal on the east. It is connected to the Seven Sister States of Northeast India by the narrow Siliguri Corridor in the north east of West Bengal.