Talk:Indian diaspora/Archive 1

Roma people
-There should be some mention of the Roma people as they are descended from the first wave of people to leave the Indian subcontinent en masse. We mention the kingdoms in Southeast Asia but these were mostly just traders now and then and mostly local rulers adopting Hindu/Buddhist customs. There was no en masse wave of South Asian immigration into this region. The first emigration of this kind, forced though it was, was that of the Gypsies, and that must be mentioned. After all, despite 1000 years and not being Indian at all anymore, they still speak languages with some words of Sanksrit and follow some South Asian customs in addition to the mainstream European culture(and other Asian cultures) and remain a marginalized European ethnic group due to their differences.

Some geek removed Roma people because they were from Pakistan and not India. Let me remind you all that pre-1947 Pakistan was historically apart of India and never a separate identity, despite what modern pakistani propagandists say. Roma are Indo-Aryan speaking, follow Rajput customs and are very Indian in origin. They go back up. Modern political borders dont take away their essential Indian origin. -User: Afghan Historian
 * We are from Rajasthan-Punjab area, which now is mostly in India and Romani is a Central Indo-Aryan language. Desiphral-देसीफ्राल 20:26, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

The Indian Diaspora
Is it not better to refer to this page as "The Indian Diaspora" to cover all people of indian origin, be they NRIs or PIOs and have a link from the two terms to a common, neutral title? That is how the government of India refers to them in thier excellent report, which can be found at: http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/ - Shobhit

Diaspora in Australia and New Zealand

I agree with referring to this page as "The Indian Diaspora", so as to avoid a lengthy discussion into about NRIs and PIOs. Also this page contains no information on small (compared to the states and UK) but well off, educated community of Indians living in Australia and New Zealand?!

Nitin.


 * I agree that the long and cumbersomely technical title of this article would be better served to be renamed simply Indian diaspora or possibly Hindustani Diaspora. Then a section for each group by geographic delimitation and legal distinction can outline differences in usage and explain which groups of people are covered by which term, either as self-describing ethnonyms or as legal categories as defined by the Indian State. --Big Adamsky 17:10, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I suggest highly of the term Indian emigrants, as the focus of the article revolves around the Indians themselves rather than the migration itself (diaspora). We're currently are having the same resolution troubles in the German and Japanese articles.falsedef 07:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

List of countries
Is there some reason behind the order of the countries on the page? It's not alphabetical, it's not in order of population numbers, it's not in order of Indian arrival... --Helenalex 03:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

excessively long name
The title of this article is excessively long. It needs to be shortened.--Sefringle 01:02, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Suggest navbar template at the bottom
Hi all; a lot of diaspora-series articles have recently had navbars added at the bottom. For example, Korean diaspora, Overseas Chinese2, etc. I made one at Non-resident_Indian; do you all think this is a good idea? Any comments on the content/organisation? Cheers, cab 06:59, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It is a good idea, I support it, just there should appear that it includes the PIO, since most of the articles present also the local PIO. Desiphral-देसीफ्राल 11:58, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Proposal to move this article to Non-resident Indian
The current title is just way too long. I think the new title would be better because it is easier to find, and isn't so excessively long.--Sefringle 07:20, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The article presents also the PIO, so they should be included in the title, see previous discussions. For easier finding purposes there are already the redirects Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin. Desiphral-देसीफ्राल 12:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Well then can we devide this article up into the two?--Sefringle 05:05, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you have ideas how it would be possible? The same as in the articles by country of NRI-PIO, here also, in the general article, they are very intertwined and usually the external sources have the same approach. Desiphral-देसीफ्राल 07:38, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Split article
NRI and PIO are extremely different terms. I propose that this article should be split. 203.115.91.212 10:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * And do you have ideas how? Most of the related articles and external sources present them together. Plus, they are not "extremely different terms", if I would cite you, there are many overlappings. Like the Indians born in the Gulf states, but who never or rarely travel to India, they are nominally NRI, but with what would be considered a PIO lifestlye. Also many times, popularly, the PIO are considered as NRI. Desiphral-देसीफ्राल 18:37, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Bollysthan?
This is not a widely-used or recognised term in any way, and I suggest it should be removed from the text as it is not representative of the topic. Anyways it would be 'Bollystan' without the 'h'. Pranab —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pranab.salian (talk • contribs) 18:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC).

It is Bollystan; I've seen it quoted in multiple magazine and other newspaper accounts. 68.55.218.224 (talk) 07:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)charlie

Trinidad and Tobago
How reliable is the data source? The CSO data for Trinidad and Tobago says that the Indo-Trinidadian population is 40.3% of 1.3 million people (523,900, not 500,600) - that makes me question the data quality (and I can't seem to find their data source). Guettarda 03:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually there's more recent data, page 6. The 2000 data (latest collected) 40.0% of 1,262,400 - 504,960.  Guettarda 03:21, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


 * You also have to account for people of mixed Indian origin which is an additional 20%, who are also considered a person of Indian origin. - 69.157.6.178 (talk) 04:08, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Indian Immigration Question
There are many Indians in India, who want to immigrate to North America. To get to Canada and United States, they need to apply for immigration and pay some fees and then buy expensive airplane tickets. Indian rupee(INR) dollar is worthed very low compare to the Canadian dollar and American dollar.

'''Are the Indians who can pay for the immigration fees and airplane tickets to come to Canada and U.S, are rich? Is buying an airplane ticket to North America for a middle-class Indian in India like an average American buying a new BMW or Mercedes in the U.S.? ''' 72.140.11.75 (talk) 23:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Headline text
Registration in N.R.I Department Mr.Parminder Singh Brar S/o S.Bhupinder Singh (PERSON OF INDIAN ORIGIN) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.62.113.254 (talk) 06:02, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Indians in Guatemala
I was reading an article in a Guatemalan newspaper about Indians who settled in Guatemala around the early 20th Century. They settled in Izabal around Livingston. The community was self-sustaining, with Indians only marrying other Indians. Until recently, they did not marry mestizos or blacks. They also lost touch with their Indian language, retaining only their culture and cousine. It was a very interesting article, but the statistics for Indians abroad seems incorrect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Saopabs83 (talk • contribs) 05:43, 17 March 2007 (UTC).
 * What's your source on this? Can't be cited w/o the source. Lihaas (talk) 19:35, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Roma population
If the article on the Roma people links here, then the Roma population should certainly include the Indians abroad. Yet, I don't see E. Europe countries like Romania/Bulgaria on this list. Would it not be appropriate to add these in? Lihaas (talk) 19:38, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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Major ethnic group??
That doesn't make sense- it implies that they're the majority population. 66.27.215.103 (talk) 08:39, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Demographics
What % of Indians are non resident ? - The reason I ask is because it would be usefull to display this % on the article. Thanks Sansonic (talk) 14:17, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Same article for two different topics
I guess, this article is wrongly crafted by equalizing NRI's and PIO's along with a POV statement of "in common usage also etc.". The article needs to be split, because there are legal differences of these terms. An NRI is a citizen of India, while a PIO is not. --Misssss (talk) 14:08, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Just now I came across of citizens of Singapore in this article without recent migrant history. This article seems to need a drastical rewrite. --Misssss (talk) 14:10, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Copied section
The whole Australia section was copied from a website http://www.sikh.com.au/inaus/index.html back in 2007 with this edit:. A lot of the wording has been changed by other editors since then, but the section probably still violates copyright and may need to be rewritten. Fswan4 (talk) 18:37, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

'WHO INDIANS??'
AN AMERICAN VISITED INDIA AND WENT BACK TO AMERICA WHEN HE MET HIS INDIAN FRIEND, WHO ASKED HIM... "HOW DID U FIND MY COUNTRY ??" THE AMERICAN SAID IT IS A GREAT COUNTRY WITH SOLID ANCIENT HISTORY, AND IMMENSELY RICH WITH NATURAL RESOURCES. THE INDIAN FRIEND THEN ASKED. HOW DID U FIND INDIANS ?? INDIANS?? WHO INDIANS?? I DIDN'T FIND OR MEET A SINGLE INDIAN THERE IN INDIA. WHAT NONSENSE?? WHO ELSE COULD U MEET IN INDIA THEN?? THE AMERICAN SAID .. IN KASHMIR I MET A KASHMIRI“ IN PUNJAB A PANJABI“ IN BIHAR,MAHARASTRA, RAJASTHAN, BENGAL,TAMILNADU & KERALA I MET A BIHARI,MARATHI, MARWARI, BENGALI,TAMILIAN, MALAYALI BUT THEN I MET A MUSLIM, A HINDU A CHRISTIAN, A JAIN, A BUDDHIST etc AND MANY MANY MANY MORE BUT NOT A SINGLE INDIAN DID I MEET!!! THINK HOW SERIOUS THIS JOKE THE DAY WOULD NOT BE FAR OFF WHEN INDEED WE IN INDIA WOULD BECOME A COLLECTION OF STATES or are we in the process of forming : "UNITED STATES OF INDIA" Introspect.. . ALWAYS SAY I AM AN INDIAN JAI HIND !!! Let Us Be United Regards, INDIAN.

''' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.113.191.2 (talk) 11:58, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

number of PIO is now out dated
im pretty sure its not 24 million its 25 million now. 99.51.212.6 (talk) 15:25, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Person of Indian origin
Perhaps this article should be moved to Person of Indian Origin. Andrew Yong 00:07, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I disagree. The two terms are not synonymous, although they are often confused. Non-Resident Indian refers to a person of Indian nationality, who does not live in India. He maintains his Indian citizenship, in most cases, and still has a strong affinity with the nation. Person of Indian Origin refers to a person whose ancestors are Indian, but is himself foreign-born. He may still identify wholly or partly with Indian culture, is probably proud of his Indian roots, but his citizenship and his personal identity are not nationally Indian, although he may be so culturally. A comparable situation is with Americans of Irish, Polish, Italian, etc descent. They are proud of where their ancestors came from, but they are unquestionably American. That corresponds to PIO,  NOT  to NRI. Davidcannon 00:47, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I agree. According to the FERA act of 1973, an NRI is a person who: 1.Indian citizens who stay abroad for employment or for carrying on any business or vocation or for any other purpose in circumstances indicating an indefinite period of stay outside India.

2.Indian Citizens working abroad on assignments with Foreign Governments or regional/international agencies like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund,World Health Organization and Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific etc.

3.Officials of Central and State Governments and Public sector undertakings deputed abroad on temporary assignments with foreign Governments/agencies/organizations or posted to their branches or offices abroad.

This clearly indicated that an NRI is an Indian Citizen living abroad. A PIO is more losely defined as someone who has ever been an Indian citizen or has parents/grandparents/great-grandparents who have ever been an Indian citizen, or whose spouse is a PIO. Vinay 00:03, 05 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Why does PIO re-direct here? I am a PIO, but absolutely not an NRI (great-grandparents/great-great-grandparents were from India; we have been in the Caribbean 150 year). Guettarda 14:47, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have no idea what i consider myself as. I was born in Dubai, UAE and have lived there for 23 years till a few months back when I moved to Australia for further studies. I have never lived in India but hold an Indian Passport though technically, i should be holding a UAE Passport. If i apply the differentiating factors mentioned above im considered a PIO GodlyJohn 23:25, 10 Oct 2005

Just a note: Person of Indian Origin is a status given by the Gov't of India (as mentioned in one of the entries) and can be given to someone through marriage. So there may be a need to refer to "person of Indian origin" meaning having Indian ancestry and "Person of Indian Origin", the status given by the Gov't of India. Just a thought (gpdempsey@gmail.com ("Librarian1968" when logged in) March 2006

Surely it should be Non-resident Indians and persons (or people) or Indian Origin? After all, we're talking about a lot of people here, so why is it not the plural? Or is there some technical thing I'm missing? --Helenalex 03:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Ditto above comment.--Charles (talk) 23:18, 24 January 2009 (UTC) Bold text —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.161.77.58 (talk) 06:34, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

'Regions with significant populations' section
Nepal data seems shaky at best. Can't seem to find any other reference that concurs. However, this document (not dated, but PDF metadata lists a December 2009 creation date) http://moia.gov.in/writereaddata/pdf/NRISPIOS-Data.pdf (from http://moia.gov.in/services.aspx?ID1=300&id=m9&idp=59&mainid=23) shows significantly different numbers for Nepal (among others). It may be worth revisiting the entire table. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.191.175.204 (talk) 18:19, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

East Indian = descendants of first Roman Catholic converts of India's Konkani-speaking regions
It is a misnomer for Canadians who were either born in India or have ancestors hailing from India.

It is mostly Canadians of Punjabi origin who accept the use of this term. Many Canadians of Indian origin may have a tough time swallowing the term, East Indian, but they are unable to change old habits in others.

Since members of the First Nations or aboriginal communities no longer refer to themselves as Indians, it is politically correct to call those who come from India or those whose ancestry is linked to that country, just plain Indian.

If the term, Indian, is good enough for other members of the British Commonwealth and the rest of the world when referring to citizens of India, then the Canadians should be able to catch up.


 * Marathi speaking from Vasai. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 04:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I support the view that the US expression "East Indian" be deprecated outside the US, especially that India is not known as "East India" and Indians are taught that the East Indies is Indonesia. At best, an East Indian is someone from the eastern states of India. I thought that Native Americans don't like being referred to as Red Indians or Indios (in Spanish).

Ash (talk) 02:56, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Wrong numbers
Wrong numbers, in Italy there are not many Indians and in the UK there are more than 1,4 millions, in the UK all people of Indian origin including people who came from Indian, the Caribbean and African Indians and their descendency can be easilly over 3 million so those numbers are all wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.205.69.207 (talk) 14:12, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

England or UK?
Is there a reason England is listed, and not the UK it self? None of the other places listed are sub-units of sovereign countries. And do the numbers listed reflect England only, or does it include other parts of the UK (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Locutus6 (talk • contribs) 04:19, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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Needs updating
This article needs updating following the merger of Person of Indian Origin (POI) and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) (see:, , ). There is a lot of outdated information still on the web including on official Government of India websites. Any information prior to January 2015 on COI and POI is likely to be misleading. Chris Fynn (talk) 19:02, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Why are all the population numbers in such odd formats?
All the population numbers on the right side of the page have a very strange format for it's decimal places, (Example Nepal has 40,00,000) Is there a reason behind this I am not seeing/understanding? Or is it simply an error of some sort.76.67.96.71 (talk) 00:44, 3 October 2015 (UTC)thaghost101


 * I believe that's the way it's written in India. 31,83,063 should be the same as 3,183,063. Elockid  ( Talk ) 00:58, 3 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Found the page: Indian numbering system. Elockid  ( Talk ) 00:59, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

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Issues?
Hi,

I've been reading this article and found the issues section particularly out of place for an encyclopaedic entry and also derogatory to NRIs and PIOs. Not everyone postpones their visits to India and I'm quite shocked at the X= X+1 syndrome as I know several people who come to India virtually every 6 months. Also complaining about toilets and hygiene is a minority activity and doesn't have a place in an encyclopaedic entry [entry].

Additionally, the manner of referring to only NRIs/PIOs in US/UK/Malaysia and Middle East seems off hand and lacking proper research.

There are for instance sizeable NRI/PIO communities in Canada, The Carribean, Africa who I believe would like to be acknowledged and deservedly so.

Shobhit


 * Agree, Must include the the historic Greater India and Indosphere populations too. 222.164.212.168 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:27, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Use these
Please pipelink some of the words in the article to the following where appropriate:


 * Indian religions
 * Hinduism in Southeast Asia
 * Jainism in America
 * Jainism in the United Kingdom
 * Jainism in Africa


 * Spread of Indian influence
 * Greater India
 * Indosphere
 * Buddhism in Southeast Asia
 * Hinduism in Southeast Asia
 * History of Indian influence on Southeast Asia
 * Indianization of Southeast Asia
 * Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin


 * Trading routes
 * Maritime history of India
 * Silk route
 * Ancient maritime history

Thanks. 222.164.212.168 (talk) 19:33, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

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Remittance
According to the World Bank, due to its large diaspora and overseas expats population, India consecutively remains the top receiver of remittance which constitutes 2.7% of India's GDP. India received US$80 in 2018 of the total US$689 billion global remittance, US$65.3 billion in 2017, US$ 62.7 billion in 2016 and US$70 billion in 2014, 222.164.212.168 (talk) 18:25, 8 December 2018 (UTC)


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Indians Living In Pakistan Roughly 2,000,000
According to Pew Research Center, the population of Indians living in Pakistan is estimated at 2 million.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by PAKHIGHWAY (talk • contribs) 21:01, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Support split of NRIs in Africa
There is a May 2019 proposal to split the NRIs in Africa section into its own article. I support this split. I would support splits of other regional sections. There is a lot to say, the culture and history is distinct for many regions, and this article is already long.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  22:53, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Either keep all continents together or part each continent out into separate article with brief summery in this article with piping/linking of detailed articles. Thanks. 222.164.212.168 (talk) 06:38, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

'To Do' issues
Romani people are not officially recognised as indian diaspora, and their origins are divided between pakistan and india so in a modern context it makes no sense to describe them as indian diaspora, which refers to people directly coming from that country not centuries old migrants. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.170.69.14 (talk) 11:17, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Issues
 * 1) "Brain drain"
 * 2) Foreign exchange inflow
 * 3) Cultural exchange
 * 4) Identity crisis
 * 5) "X = X + 1 Syndrome"
 * 6) "NRI Syndrome"
 * 7) Indian emigration law

I've placed the foregoing subsection headings (of Rrjanbiah) here since they make the article look ugly. When someone has the time to actually place content under them, I will gladly stand by as the page sees their addition. --LordSuryaofShropshire 12:41, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, I don't have much of patience to discuss with you. As long as you have your crappy prejudice mindset, you'll complain me for everything. *thread plonk* --Rrjanbiah 13:20, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Dude, you're such a psycho. Relax. No one's complaining and I'm not being prejudiced or biased. I'm just leaving these here until you write something for them! The moment material is found no one's stopping you. --LordSuryaofShropshire 22:30, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm sick and tired of you rrjanbiah. You are cantankerous, belligerent and unwilling to discuss anything with anybody. I feel exasperated because I know you will just doggedly shriek vitriol at me right now, calling me names that don't fit because you don't even know me and none of my edits do anything to display any stereotypical characteristics; the only thing I do is happen to disagree with you and ask for intelligent compromise. It's been a while and you've kept playing silly games. Now, you've finally written stuff, explaining your strange titles which have been posted as if they were somehow scientifically or academically standard, which none of them are. I'm asking for mediation and placing a POV issue notice on this page. I hope you can grow up one day or the other. By the way, your written English is terrible.--LordSuryaofShropshire 06:47, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

Issues?? I have read somewhere that when someone leaves their home to explore the world they discover so much and when they return home, they find themselves a foreigner having discovered the world. The real issue is parochial paranoia of the contemporary Indian mindset, which refuses to believe that Hindu culture allows for assimilation of new ideas. Now i bet the author of the issues will paint me off with one brushstroke as 'NRI Syndrome'.

Attempting to point to the weaknesses or areas of opportunity in Indian culture is not NRI Syndrome. NRI Syndrome is more precisely inbility to accept the status quo having witnessed the possibilities. NRI Syndrome is good for Indian culture. - Soc


 * interesting topics, these should be included in the article, at least a brief discussion with piping to more detailed existing or new articles as appropriate. Thanks. 222.164.212.168 (talk) 06:40, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Indian Tanzanians
As usual Wikipedians largely still underestimate the largest minority Indians in Tanzanians that could reach millions Nlivataye (talk) 15:46, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Copy and paste
Copy and paste in section Statistics on Indians in the US from http://www.nriinternet.com/Did_you_Know/NRIs_Population_WORLDWIDE/index.htm. Or could it be copied from Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bakashi10 (talk • contribs) 14:31, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Numbers Don't Match
The table at the top says UAE has the second largest Indian diaspora population. Further down a table shows Saudi Arabia as having the second largest. 2603:7000:9602:9112:E9CC:8086:D76:2080 (talk) 18:07, 26 June 2021 (UTC)