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newrussam.livejournal.com

Please do not edit your replays in such a substantial way or I'll have serious doubts that you mean no foul play.

"Pakistan is west of India, so it fits that definition."
Well, as an American, not only you display scanty knowledge of geography, but, evidently, of history too. There was no Pakistan in existence back in 1902. Pakistan was a part of British India as one country and one people until 1947. It is largely an artificial division engineered by the departing Brits as a farewell "fuck you".

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rimpala.livejournal.com

In that case Pakistan would be India.

I admit that I maybe should have said Near East, or Muslim World.

Formal Mongolian Empire maybe?

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newrussam.livejournal.com

"Formal Mongolian Empire maybe?"
Maybe former then.

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telemann.livejournal.com

Oh I knew it, but Pakistan was an autonomous region even within India under British rule, political entities were and quite historically different: which is why Pakistan and India separated in the 1940s after the British pulled out. Just like "Middle East" and "Near East," as I mentioned earlier- India could be either a geographical area or a political entity. The other quote I mentioned as well demonstrated that fluctuation by extending the term "Middle East" to include even India eastward to Burma.

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newrussam.livejournal.com

OK, this becoming plain ridiculous.

"Pakistan was an autonomous region even within India"
I have no idea what autonomy you are talking about, There was no Pakistan as such. Pakistan was formed from several whole and partial provinces. So which one was oh-so-autonomous?
One couldn't even talk about Pakistan before 1947. There was no such thing. This is yet another reason that saying things like "Pakistan and India separated" is plain ludicrous. The only reason I used this wording is to simplify it for you, ablate in vain.

"India could be either a geographical area or a political entity."
SRSLY? And why not a country? Isn't there one today? Let's not get too deep in political science here and introduce irrelevant consents. It's not necessary. By the year 1902 Baluchistan was incorporated into British India as a province, leaving Alfred Thayer Mahan no "geographical area or a political entity" to refer to but India itself. And that's exactly what he did: drew the border of the Middle East between Iran and India - two neighboring countries at that time.