Indies

n. East Indies; West Indies

n. independent film, film not produced my a major commercial movie studio; independent record label, recording company that is not owned by a major corporation (Slang)

You may be looking for West Indies or Indie''. The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term often used to refer to the islands of SE Asia, especially the Malay Archipelago. In a wider sense, the Indies is also used to describe lands of South and Southeast Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and also Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, which was last called the Dutch East Indies before independence.
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(n. pl.)
A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.
  

= Hindi.
Ex: This article discusses the collaboration between the school librarian and the humanities department at Little Ilford School in the acquistion of textbooks in the main community languages (Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Hindi).

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