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Indo-Aryans form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in India (North India, East India, West India, and Central India), Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. [11] Dravidians form the predominant ethnolinguistic group in southern India, the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka and a small pocket of Pakistan. [12]
There were also some East Indian slaves in the United States during the American colonial era. [18] [19] In particular, court records from the 1700s indicate a number of "East Indians" were held as slaves in Maryland and Delaware. [20] Upon freedom, they are said to have blended into the free African American population, considered "mulattoes ...
In 1989, the East–West Center published a research paper about Indian Americans that said that the term, "Asian Indian", one of the fourteen "races" in the 1980 U.S. census, is an "artificial census category and not a meaningful racial, ethnic, or ancestral designation" due the vast diversity of cultures, genotypes, and phenotypes found ...
The ethnic groups in Southeast Asia comprise many different ethnolinguistic stocks. Besides indigenous Southeast Asians , many East Asians and South Asians call Southeast Asia their home. The total Southeast Asian population stands at 655 million (2019).
East India DLR station, a railway station in East London; East Indian(s) may refer to: Bombay East Indians, a Marathi-Konkani ethnoreligious group in Mumbai, India. East Indian language is the dialect of Marathi-Konkani, spoken by East Indians people in Mumbai, India; Indian Americans, residents of the United States descended from migrants from ...
Shepherd, V. "Transients to citizens: The development of a settled East Indian Community", The Jamaica Journal 18 (3): 17–21. Singhvi, H. M., ed. (2000), "Chapter 19. Other Countries of Central and South America" (PDF) , Report of the High Level Committee on the Indian Diaspora , Republic of India: Ministry of External Affairs, archived from ...
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in India" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 325 total. ... Bombay East Indians; Bonaz; Bonda people ...
The Bombay East Indian Association was founded on 26 May 1887 to advance the education, employment, rights and economic development of the East Indians. P F Gomes, who was knighted by Pope Leo XIII in 1888, was its first president and J L Britto its first secretary. D G D'Almeida donated ₹100,000 to establish an education fund.