What ethnicity are Indians?

Answer 1

I assume you're referring to Indians from South Asia, not Amerindians. India is a very multi-ethnic state. Some of the largest ethnic groups are:

-Gujuratis (Gujurat, Daman and Diu)

-Punjabis (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Chandigarh)*

-Bengalis (West Bengal)**

-Paharis (Uttarkhand, Sikkim, Kashmir)***

-Tamils (Tamil Nadu)****

-Malayalis (Kerala)

-Kannadas (Karnataka)

-Telugus (Andhra pradesh)

-Tuluvas (a part of Karnataka called Tulu Nadu)

-Marathis (Maharashtra, minority in Goa)

-Konkanis (Goa, minority in Maharashtra. Majority in parts of southern Konkan in Maharashtra as well)

-Kashmiris (Kashmir)

-Ladakhis (Ladakh, a part of Kashmir)

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Indian ethnic groups are mostly categorized in two large groups, Indo-Aryan or Dravidian. Bengalis, Punjabis, Gujuratis, etc. are Aryans while the Tamils, Malayalis, Telugus, etc. in the south are Dravidians. There are also some Indians of British descent, called Anglo-Indians.

There is a small number of Jews, from a number of different Jewish communities: Cochin Jews (Malayali Jews), Bene Israel (Marathi Jews), Baghdadi Jews (Arab Jews in Maharashtra), Bnei Menashe (Mizo and Kuki Jews, two Christian tribal groups) and Bene Ephraim (Telugu Jews). Many Indian Jews have migrated to Israel.

*Also in Punjab, Islamabad and Azad Kashmir in Pakistan

**Also in Bangladesh

***Also in Nepal and Bhutan

****Also in Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka

Answer 2

First we have to define the concept of "race": means each of the groups that are subdivided in zoological species whose differential characters are perpetuated by heredity of each of the three scientifically recognized races: Mongolian, black, white.

Now, lets define ethnic:

Ethnic: natural community of men with racial, linguistic, religious or cultural affinities.

Understand that Native Americans is not a race but an ethnicity. The race of the native Americans of all the American Continent is Mongoloid. The paleoanthropological and genetic evidence demonstrates that approximately 14,500 years ago the Mongoloids crossed the Bering Stretch. Note that the features of the eyes and the texture hair of all the "native Americans" looks like the Asian ethnic (Easterns). In other words: Mongoloid race.

There is also a distortion of a "Hispanic" concept in the United States by calling them as Hispanic race.A person is Hispanic because his language is Spanish and Latin because it speaks a language of Latin origin.Consequently, Latinos are those who speak any of the following languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French and Romanian. So,Latin is a French or Italian as one who comes from Argentina, Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Answer 3

If you are born in India, you're Indian. If you are a native American, you're a Native American Indian.

India Indians are predominantly Caucasians, while Native Americans are either classified as Mongoloids or their own race.

Answer 4

Are you referring to American Indians or Indians from India, In either case there is your answer

Historically, India Indians are of the Caucasoid race, while Native Americans are of the Mongoloid race.

Of course today, there is no biological basis for race.

Answer 5

Asian Indians`race depends on the region. Most are Caucasian, though there is Australoid mixture in the south and Mongoloid mixture in the East.

Native Americans are classified as mongoloid, descendants of the people of Asia.

Answer 6

Indians in the Asian continent are Caucasian.

Native Americans are classified either as Mongoloid, occasionally as an entirely separate group.

Answer 7

I'm guessing if they are from India, possibly Indian?

Answer 8

Native Americans are classified either as Mongoloids or their own category (excluding the Inuit, who are Mongoloid).