Question

why India is called an Eastern country ?

Answer 1

The term Eastern world (also the Orient) refers very broadly to the various cultures or social structures and philosophical systems, depending on the context, most often including at least part of Asia or geographically the countries and cultures east of Europe, north of Oceania. The term is usually not used by people in this region itself, since this Eastern world is a varied, complex and dynamic region, hard to generalize, and although these countries and regions have many common threads running through them, historically they never needed to define themselves collectively against another entity, real or superficial.

The term originally had a literal geographic meaning, referring to the eastern part of the Old World, contrasting the cultures and civilizations of Asia with those of Europe (the Occident or Western world). Traditionally, this includes all of Central, North and East Asia (the Far East), Western Asia (the Near East), Southeast Asia and South Asia (the Indian subcontinent), specifically in historical (pre-modern) contexts, and in modern times in the context of Orientalism, but the term is also used