Christropher Colombus , was on a conquest to find Japan and had
actually gone westwards from Spain , and what he discovered was
actually Cuba in the West Indies and he had thought that Cuba was
the Indian name for Japan.
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It was the corporal partnership of The British and East Indies
and India
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The East Indies usually refers to Indonesia. Historically it was
India, now it sometimes is used to refer to Southeast Asia.