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[[File:Indian cultural zone.svg|right|thumb|400px|'''Dark orange''': The [[Indian subcontinent]]. '''Light orange''': Other countries culturally linked to India, notably [[Burma]], [[Thailand]], [[Cambodia]], [[Laos]], [[Champa]] ([[Southern Vietnam]]), [[Indonesia]], [[Malaysia]], [[Brunei]] and [[Singapore]]. '''Yellow''(contracted; show full)

==Indian cultural sphere==
[[File:006 Bujang Valley Candi.jpg|right|thumb|Candi Bukit Batu Pahat of [[Bujang Valley]]. A [[Hindu]]-[[Buddhist]] kingdom ruled ancient [[Kedah]] possibly as early as 110 CE, the earliest evidence of strong [[India]]n influence which was once prevalent among the pre-Islamic [[Kedahan Malay]]s.]]

[[File:Kinari.jpg|thumb|right|A golden statuette of the Hindu-Buddhist mythical beings [[Kinnara|Kinnari]] found in an archeological dig in [[Esperanza, Agusan del Sur]], [[The Philippines]].]]

The use of ''Greater India'' to refer to an Indian cultural sphere was popularised by a network of Bengali scholars in the 1920s who were all members of the Calcutta-based Greater India Society.  The movement's early leaders included the historian [[R. C. Majumdar]] (1888–1980); the philologists [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]] (1890–1977) and [[Prabodh Chandra Bagchi|P. C. Bagchi]] (1898–1956), and the historians [[Phanindranath Bose]] and  [[Kalidas Nag]] (1891–1966).<ref>{{Harv(contracted; show full)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20081203003856/http://www.oeaw.ac.at/sozant/images/working_papers/soa001.pdf THEORIES OF INDIANISATION] Exemplified by Selected Case Studies from Indonesia (Insular Southeast Asia), by Dr. Helmut Lukas

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