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Desi (देसी / دیسی desī) is a Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) word, meaning 'national', ultimately from Sanskrit deśīya, derived from deśa (देश) 'region, province, country'. [3] The first known usage of the Sanskrit word is found in the Natya Shastra (~200 BCE), where it defines the regional varieties of folk performing arts , as ...
The largest ethnolinguistic group in South Asia are the Indo-Aryans, numbering around 1 billion, and the largest subgroup are the native speakers of Hindi languages, numbering more than 470 million. These groups are based solely on a linguistic basis and not on a genetic basis.
Various attempts have been made, under the British Raj and since, to classify the population of India according to a racial typology.After independence, in pursuance of the government's policy to discourage distinctions between communities based on race, the 1951 Census of India did away with racial classifications.
There are approximately 1.86 million people of Indian origin or ancestry in Canada, the majority of which live in Greater Toronto and Vancouver, with growing communities in Alberta and Quebec. [ b ] Roughly 5.1% of the total Canadian population is of Indian ancestry, a figure higher than both the United States and Britain.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups primarily concentrated in South Asia This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (January 2021) (Learn ...
Chaudhari (Hindi: चौधरी, Punjabi: ਚੌਧਰੀ, Marathi: चौधरी) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ankush Chaudhari (born 1977), Indian film actor; Bahinabai Chaudhari (1880–1951), Marathi language poet; Manish Chaudhari (born 1969), Indian actor; Nirupa Chaudhari, American biologist
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.
Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, is the vernacular form of two standardized registers used as official languages in India and Pakistan, namely Hindi and Urdu.It comprises several closely related dialects in the northern, central and northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent but is mainly based on Khariboli of the Delhi region.