India-no-place

English Alternative forms en Indianoplace Etymology en Indianapolis no place. Proper noun 1 en colloquial derogatory Indianapolis. en Dreemz Benjamin Stein 1978 9780060140717 Harper & Row They were twenty-year-old twins who had just moved out from Indianapolis, or “India-no-place,” as they said. They wanted to be stars. 187 Ben Stein en Time (magazine) Time India-no-place No More Jacob V. Lamar, Jr. 1984-06-11 https://time.com/archive/6860417/india-no-place-no-more/ 0040-781X 1311479 Hardly anybody writes odes to Indianapolis. No Sandburg or Gershwin has ever praised the Midwestern city’s hard American beauty. No bustling metropolis, that town; no seething cauldron of culture. Instead, folks mockingly called it “India-no-place.” https://web.archive.org/web/20261021083318/https://time.com/archive/6860417/india-no-place-no-more/ 21 October 2026 en Slogans and Nicknames Encyclopedia of Indianapolis Deborah B. Markisohn 1994-11-22 https://indyencyclopedia.org/slogans-and-nicknames/ 9780253112491 Indiana University Press These monikers are frequently descriptive (“The Capital City”), associated with a prominent industry (“The Railroad City”), geographical (“Crossroads of America”), sports-related (home of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing”), religiously inspired (“City of Churches”), derogatory (“Naptown,” “India-no-place,” “End-of-No-Place”), or abbreviations (“Indy”). https://web.archive.org/web/20251018174346/https://indyencyclopedia.org/slogans-and-nicknames/ 18 October 2025 en Indianoplace; Or, What Results from Being Plunked Down On a Flat, Swampy, Heavily Forested Tract of Land The Indianapolis Anthology Norman Minnick 2021-05-11 9781953368164 Belt Publishing 1 en Chicago (magazine) Chicago Hands Off, Indiana Edward McClelland 2025-04-07 https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/may-2025/hey-indiana-hands-off-our-people-and-bears/ 0362-4595 2398937 It has a sort of big city, whose nickname is India-no-place, but the rest of the state is composed of small towns with little opportunity. https://web.archive.org/web/20260505161525/https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/may-2025/hey-indiana-hands-off-our-people-and-bears/ 5 May 2026 en Indianapolis Nicknames for cities