subcontinental

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to a subcontinent.

   In the menagerie of subcontinental art, the horse and elephant are most common.

   1997, Henry Glassie, Art and Life in Bangladesh, Indiana University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 283

2. not comparablegeographyLocated or occurring beneath continental crust.

   When a subcontinental plume hits such a thin spot, the result would be voluminous shallow magmatism.

   1995, Brian F. Windley, The Evolving Continents, Wiley, published 1995, →ISBN, page 51

comparative more subcontinental · superlative most subcontinental

1. Pertaining to the Indian Subcontinent; South Asian.

plural subcontinentals

1. A person from the Indian Subcontinent; a South Asian.

   This does not mean that we value Englishmen at a premium and Africans at a moral discount. Nor does it mean that Canadians are intrinsically more precious to us than subcontinentals.

   1965, Charles Burton Marshall, The Exercise of Sovereignty: Papers on Foreign Policy, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press, →LCCN, page 223

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   If the subcontinentals do go home, it would behove them—and the Emiratis—to ask this question: On balance, did the presence of subcontinentals in Dubai and the UAE do more good than bad? / There can be only one answer to that question: The goodwill and hard work of the subcontinentals forever changed the landscape of the UAE and that of the other six Arab countries of the Gulf.

   2011, Pranay Gupte, Dubai: The Making of a Megapolis, Viking, published 2016, →ISBN

   Conversely, there were many subcontinentals informed about Kashmir. Apart from Kashmiris, and the British knew very few of them, most of these subcontinentals in 1846 either were from Punjab or were involved with the Sikh Empire.

   2015, Christopher Snedden, Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris, Oxford University Press, →ISBN