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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 835 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EAST INDIES , a name formerly applied vaguely, in its widest sense, to the whole See also:area of See also:India, Further India and the See also:Malay See also:Archipelago, in distinction from the See also:West Indies, which, at the See also:time of their See also:discovery, were taken to be the extreme parts of the See also:Indian region. The See also:term " East Indies " is still sometimes applied to the Malay Archipelago (q.v.) alone, and the phrase " Dutch East Indies " is commonly used to denote the Dutch possessions which constitute the greater See also:part of that archipelago. The Dutch themselves use the term Nederlandsch-Indie.

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