Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There is no parallel in the history of the world. This mighty subcontinent with all kinds of inhabitants has been brought under a plan which is titanic, unknown, unparalleled. And what is very important with regard to it is that we have achieved it peacefully and by means of an evolution of the greatest possible character.

Pakistani Politician

Sal Khan

After my parents' divorce in the early seventies, I grew up with my mother, who wasn't super educated herself. But there were a lot of kids from the subcontinent in the neighbourhood, many of whom were academic achievers. So my sister and I grew up around them, and both of us did well in school.

American Educator

Shahid Khan

I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The subcontinentals were the last ethnic minority to gain citizenship. You assimilate. My name was too hard. They said, 'Shad is what we are calling you.' You go with the flow.

Pakistani Businessman

Ajay Mehta

I feel respect is in your hands as an actor when portraying a character, particularly when it's from the Indian subcontinent. I do make a conscious effort to do so and often talk to the directors especially about the heavy accent when it's not needed.

Indian Actor

Dale Steyn

I don't want a new ball when I am bowling in the subcontinent. I want an old ball that can't get hit out of the ground. I want a ball that when I bowl doesn't have true bounce, so that the batsman can't hit it.

South African Athlete

Sanjaya Baru

For too long have many of us in India imagined a future in which the country would rise, leaving the rest of the subcontinent behind. This is neither possible nor warranted.

Indian Public Servant

Steve Smith

In Australia you can be a little bit more attacking, in places on the subcontinent you've got to find ways to get batsmen out, you might have to bore them out.

Australian Cricketer

Shahid Afridi

Nobody in the Indian subcontinent has suffered or struggled more than Kashmiris.

Pakistani Athlete

Ravi Shastri

Sometimes in the subcontinent you just need five batsmen.

Indian Coach

Nigel Dennis

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

British Writer

A subcontinent can have political boundaries but is primarily defined by geographical characteristics.

Not Always Political

A subcontinent has a unique cultural or historical identity that sets it apart from the rest of the continent.

Distinct Identity

The term is often used in geographical contexts to discuss climate, fauna, flora, and physical landscapes.

Used in Geography

 the features of a subcontinent even as they created the rationale for occupation and so it was not by chance that the greatest scientific experiment of the 19th century was a literal measurement of India and it was through that process of the great trigonometry that the greatest mountain of the world

Wade Davis: Into the...

 mother which was still the most prevalent animal was probably down to a couple of thousand animals in the entire subcontinent ron was determined not to let the crocodiles disappear he decided to set up a sanctuary and try to get them to breed his efforts paid off

Madras Crocodile...

 And those of you who cashed your money here might be surprised to see how many scripts there are on the rupee note, spelling out the denominations. We've got all of that. We don't even have geography uniting us, because the natural geography of the subcontinent

Why nations should...

 And I just couldn't accept that. So I started a career as a social entrepreneur, starting an organization for young people like myself -- I was young at the time that I started it -- who traced their heritage to the Indian subcontinent.

Immigrant voices make...

 of the first urban centers in human history nestled in southern Pakistan's Indus River Valley mohenjo-daro is the largest and best-preserved city of the Indus civilization the earliest known civilization of the Indian subcontinent

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 about and i really appreciate your sharing this story which is a family story but it's also a story that's important for all the generations to know my stepmother was born in colonial india nine years before the subcontinent won

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 India a tooth to the subcontinent Pakistan in India so in terms of diffusion it's not a nation it's a entire continent that is it issue second the number above sixty is only three per and of the population so we have one of

A vision for the future...

 What followed was one of the largest and bloodiest forced migrations in history. An estimated one million people lost their lives. Before British colonization, the Indian subcontinent was a patchwork of regional kingdoms

Why was India split into...

 But not all cultures are like that. Not all cultures are as rigid. Many cultures don't look at genitalia primarily as basis for gender construction, and some communities in North America, Africa, the Indian subcontinent

The gender-fluid history...

 even worshipped throughout the subcontinent it's bite can deliver a powerful neurotoxic venom which brings on paralysis and if untreated death although not as lethal as the russell's

Subcontinent