Examples of subcontinent

• The heaviest usage was in the northern and western regions of the subcontinent with much lower levels in the extreme south.

• Perceived as a corollary to the subcontinent's weak modern banking infrastructure, hundi/hawala is defined as an alternative remittance system.

• But this fiscal modernism was not divorced from the cultural world of the subcontinent.

• Scattered throughout the subcontinent, yet concentrated in the north, these people formed an unmistakable underworld of local rural society.

• It must be acknowledged, however, that the issue of transfer occurred in the context of capitalist development on the subcontinent.

• To sum up, the author argues that both tattoos and dress were studied and classified to make sense of the subcontinent's social spaces.

• Opium use for both medicinal and mood-altering purposes was an accepted cultural practice throughout the subcontinent with little or no disapproval attached to it.

• The system that emerged in each major region of the subcontinent was sensitive to varying local conditions, cultural preferences and economic circumstances.