Indo-African
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Indo-African or African Indian may refer to:
People of mixed
India
n and African heritage.
Members of the Indian diaspora living in Africa, and citizens of India
living in Africa:
Members of the Black/African diaspora
living in India, and citizens of African countries living in India. Many of these aren't really African (in fact most are indigenous), but rather people usually considered "black":
The following aren't really of African descent but are rather considered "black people". These people are in fact indigenous to India and actually predate what we usually think of "Indians". See Adivasi
, Negrito
, and Australoid
:
People of mixed
Multiracial
The terms multiracial and mixed-race describe people whose ancestries come from multiple races. Unlike the term biracial, which often is only used to refer to having parents or grandparents of two different races, the term multiracial may encompass biracial people but can also include people with...
India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n and African heritage.
- By demographic
- Marabou (ethnicity)Marabou (ethnicity)Marabou is a term of Haitian origin denoting multiracial admixture. The term describes the offspring of a person of mixed race: black African/European and East Indian ancestry, born in Haiti. The East Indians arrived in Haiti from other Caribbean islands...
- DouglaDouglaDougla, a word used by people of the West Indies, especially in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. It is used to describe people who are a product of Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian descent...
, term used in Trinidad and Tobago (but also in other parts of the West Indies) regrading people who are of part African and Indian descent
- Marabou (ethnicity)
Members of the Indian diaspora living in Africa, and citizens of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
living in Africa:
- South African Indians
- Indian diaspora in East AfricaIndian diaspora in East AfricaThe Indian diaspora in Africa refers to people of Indian origin living in Africa. Most Indians in Africa arrived in the 19th century as British indentured labourers, many of them to work on the Kenya-Uganda railway, while others had arrived earlier by sea as traders....
- Indians in MadagascarIndians in MadagascarIndians in Madagascar form a community of roughly 25,000 individuals according to the statistics of India's Ministry of External Affairs; other estimates of their population range from 15,000 to 30,000. Among them are 867 non-resident Indians, with the rest being locally-born descendants of early...
- Indians in KenyaIndians in KenyaThere are currently over 100,000 Indians in Kenya, most living in the major urban areas of Nairobi and Mombasa with others living in rural areas. Most are Hindus and with some Muslims, often with their own businesses and places of worship...
- Indians in TanzaniaIndians in TanzaniaThere are currently over 90,000 people of Indian origin in Tanzania. Many of them are traders and they control a sizeable portion of the Tanzanian economy. Indians have a long history in Tanzania starting with the arrival of Gujarati traders in the 19th century. They came to gradually control the...
- Indians in UgandaIndians in UgandaThere are currently over 12,000 people of Indian origin living in Uganda, but this is a far cry from their heyday. In the late 1890s, over 30,000 Indians, mostly Sikhs, were brought on 3 year contracts to build the Uganda Railway from Mombasa to Kisumu by 1901, and to Kampala by 1931. Some died,...
- Indians in MozambiqueIndians in MozambiqueIndians in Mozambique form the sixth-largest Indian diaspora community in Africa, according to the statistics of India's Ministry of External Affairs. Roughly 40,000 people of Indian descent reside in Mozambique, as well as 870 Indian expatriates.-Origins:...
- Indians in ZimbabweIndians in ZimbabweThere are currently over 10,000 Indians in Zimbabwe, mostly as businessmen. Indians started arriving at the end of the 19th century when the territory was still known as Southern Rhodesia. Their further immigration were restricted after 1923 when the colony became a self-administered territory of...
- Indians in BotswanaIndians in BotswanaIndians in Botswana do not form a very large population. There are 3,000 PIOs and 6,000 NRIs in Botswana.-History:A few Indian families from South Africa migrated to Botswana in the beginning of the 20th century. Initially engaged in general trading, they gradually built up big businesses by...
- Indians in ZambiaIndians in ZambiaThere is a small community of Indians in Zambia. Unlike the better-known Indian communities of East Africa, they were little-studied by historians until the 2000s.-Migration history:...
- Indo-MauritianIndo-MauritianIndo-Mauritians are people of Indian descent living on the island of Mauritius, where they represent a majority comprising 68% of the population according to the July 2007 statistics...
- Réunionnais of Indian origin and MalbarsMalbarsMalbars are an ethnic group of Tamil origin in Réunion, a French island in the Southwest Indian Ocean, estimated to number 180,000. There are no official figures because the French government does not collect census data on ethnic groups....
(Réunionnais of Tamil origin) - Indo-SeychelloisIndo-Seychellois-Origins:They were brought in as indentured labourers. The majority were Hindus from North India; Tamil and Telugus from South India and Muslims form the remainder of the population.-Demographic Factors:...
Members of the Black/African diaspora
African diaspora
The African diaspora was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world—predominantly to the Americas also to Europe, the Middle East and other places around the globe...
living in India, and citizens of African countries living in India. Many of these aren't really African (in fact most are indigenous), but rather people usually considered "black":
- Sheedis/Siddiss, an ethnic community of Black African descent
- Siddis of KarnatakaSiddis of KarnatakaThe Siddis of Karnataka are a tribe of African descent that has made Karnataka their home for the last 400 years. There is a 50,000 strong Siddhi population across India, of which more than a third live in Karnataka...
, an ethnic community of Black African descent - Afro AsiansAfro Asians (African Asians)Afro-Asians are African communities have been living in India and the Indian subcontinent for several hundred years and have settled in countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India....
, Asian people of African decent
The following aren't really of African descent but are rather considered "black people". These people are in fact indigenous to India and actually predate what we usually think of "Indians". See Adivasi
Adivasi
Adivasi is an umbrella term for a heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups claimed to be the aboriginal population of India. They comprise a substantial indigenous minority of the population of India...
, Negrito
Negrito
The Negrito are a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia.Their current populations include 12 Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands, six Semang peoples of Malaysia, the Mani of Thailand, and the Aeta, Agta, Ati, and 30 other peoples of the Philippines....
, and Australoid
Australoid
The Australoid race is a broad racial classification. The concept originated with a typological method of racial classification. They were described as having dark skin with wavy hair, in the case of Veddoids from South Asia and Aboriginal Australians, or hair ranging from straight to kinky in the...
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- Andamanese people native to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, e.g. Great Andamanese
- Another isolated population are the Vedda people of Sri Lanka
- Bonda peopleBonda PeopleThe Bonda are an ancient tribe of people numbering approximately 5000 who live in the isolated hill regions of the Malkangiri district of southwesternmost Orissa, India, near the junction of the three states of Orissa, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh...
- Gondi peopleGondi peopleThe Gondi, Goindi or Gond people are people in central India, spread over the states of Madhya Pradesh, eastern Maharashtra , Chhattisgarh, northern Andhra Pradesh, and Western Orissa. With over four million people, they are the largest tribe in Central India.The Gondi language is related to...
- BhilBhilBhils are primarily an Adivasi people of Central India. Bhils are also settled in the Tharparkar District of Sindh, Pakistan. They speak the Bhil languages, a subgroup of the Western Zone of the Indo-Aryan languages....
- Dongria KondhaKondhaThe Kondha are indigenous tribal groups of India. They live in Orissa, a state in Eastern India. Their highest concentration is found in the blocks of Rayagada, Kashipur, Kalyansinghpur, Bissamcuttack and Muniguda....
- Cochin JewsCochin JewsCochin Jews, also called Malabar Jews , are the oldest group of Jews in India, with roots claimed to date to the time of King Solomon, though historically attested migration dates from the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Historically, they lived in the Kingdom of Cochin in South India, now part of the...
See also
- Afro-Asian
- African PakistaniAfrican PakistaniAfrican Pakistani or Pakistani African may refer to:*Pakistani migrants or descendants in Africa:**Pakistanis in Libya*Siddi, descendants of black African slaves in Pakistan...
- Indo-CaribbeanIndo-CaribbeanIndo-Caribbean people or Indo-Caribbeans are Caribbean people with roots in India or the Indian subcontinent. They are mostly descendants of the original indentured workers brought by the British, the Dutch and the French during colonial times...