# Farther India

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'''Farther India''', '''Further India''', or '''Ultraindia''', is an old term, now rarely used, for [Southeast Asia](/source/Southeast_Asia), seen in colonial days from Europe as the part of the [Far East](/source/Far_East) beyond the [Indian subcontinent](/source/Indian_subcontinent), but south of China.<ref name=Coedes>{{cite book|last= Coedès|first= George|authorlink= George Coedès|editor= Walter F. Vella|others= trans.Susan Brown Cowing|title= The Indianized States of Southeast Asia|year= 1968|publisher= University of Hawaii Press|isbn= 978-0-8248-0368-1}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Rajan |first=Balachandra |title=A Note on "Further India" |date=2004 |url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980465_11 |work=Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500–1900 |pages=177–184 |editor-last=Rajan |editor-first=Balachandra |access-date=2024-01-06 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781403980465_11 |isbn=978-1-4039-8046-5 |editor2-last=Sauer |editor2-first=Elizabeth|url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{rp|190}}

It refers to [Indochina](/source/Mainland_Southeast_Asia) ([Cambodia](/source/Cambodia), [Laos](/source/Laos), [Myanmar](/source/Myanmar) (aka [Burma](/source/Myanmar)), [Thailand](/source/Thailand) (former [Siam](/source/Thailand)), [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam), and [West Malaysia](/source/Peninsular_Malaysia)) and the [Malay states](/source/Malay_Archipelago) ([Brunei](/source/Brunei), [East Malaysia](/source/East_Malaysia), [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia), and [Singapore](/source/Singapore)), but usually not including the [Philippines](/source/Philippines) or [Timor-Leste](/source/Timor-Leste); these neighbouring predominantly Malay states usually belong to the wider [East Indies](/source/East_Indies) (which includes all of the above as well as the [Indian subcontinent](/source/Indian_subcontinent)).

==Other uses==
''Farther India'' is also a title of a book written by Sir [Hugh Clifford](/source/Hugh_Clifford_(colonial_administrator)).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clifford |first=Sir Hugh Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YjY1AQAAIAAJ |title=Further India: Being the Story of Exploration from the Earliest Times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China |date=1904 |publisher=Lawrence and Bullen |language=en}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [ASEAN](/source/Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations)
* [Greater India](/source/Greater_India)
** [Global Southeast](/source/Global_Southeast)

== Sources and references ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.india-seminar.com/2000/487/487%20ram.htm A.N. Ram, Historical Perspectives]

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