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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 1733127, member: 40017&quot;]Nothing to do with the Coast of India - in fact the East India Company was active right across India and further afield too - The Straits Settlements in modern Malaysia were also theirs. The term actually comes from the original belief that &quot;The Indies&quot; covered a huge area all the way from modern India to the East coast of the modern USA! Hence the East Indies were the parts of that area you got to by going East, and the West Indies (which we would now think of as the Caribbean islands) were those you reached by going West. It is also why the early colonists to North America referred to the indigenous tribes as Indians.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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