subcontinental

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to a subcontinent.

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

2. (not-comparable)Located or occurring beneath continental crust.

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

3. Pertaining to the Indian Subcontinent; South Asian.

noun

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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”