Indo-Caribbeans

Indo-Caribbeans

Total population
1 million +
Regions with significant populations
Trinidad and Tobago	464,500
Guyana	327,000
Suriname	148,000
Jamaica	100,000
Guadeloupe	60,000
Martinique	43,600
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	21,500
French Guiana	19,276
Grenada	12,000
Belize	7,000
Saint Lucia	4,700
Puerto Rico	4,500
Sint Maarten	3,000
Barbados	2,200
Curaçao	1,200
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,100
Aruba	800
Cayman Islands	732+
Antigua and Barbuda	300
British Virgin Islands	258
Haiti	200
Anguilla	100
Montserrat	40
Languages
Colonial Languages: English (Caribbean English Guyanese English Jamaican English Trinidadian English Sranan Tongo) Spanish French (Antillean Creole Haitian Creole) Dutch Portuguese Indian Languages: Hindustani Bengali Gujarati Kashmiri Kutchi Punjabi Telugu Tamil Kannada Malayalam Sindhi (spoken by more recent immigrants) other Languages of India
Religion
Predominantly: Hinduism Christianity Islam Minority: Sikhism Buddhism Jainism Zoroastrianism Bahá'í Judaism others
Related ethnic groups
Dravidian people Indo-Aryan peoples Biharis Awadhi people Tamils Telugu people Kannada people Malayali Tulu people Bengalis Rajasthani people Kashmiris Kashmiri Pandit and the Indian Diaspora Indo-Caribbean Americans British Indo-Caribbean people Indian Americans Indo-Canadians British Indians Indian South Africans Indo-Fijians Indo-Mauritians Indians in Kenya Indian Australians Indians in Argentina Indians in Brazil Indians in Panama Indians in Venezuela

Indo-Caribbeans are Caribbean people with roots in India. They are mostly descendants of the original indentured workers brought by the British, the Dutch and the French during colonial times.

The term East Indian is used in the English-speaking Caribbean and by the Canadian mainstream media. They are sometimes simply called Indian, Hindustani, Jahaji, Girmitya, Coolie, Kantraki, Bharatiya, Desi, or India Wale, in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Most Indo-Caribbean people live in the English-speaking Caribbean nations, Suriname, and the French overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique, with smaller numbers in other Caribbean countries and, following further migration, in Europe and North America.

Caribbean Islands

Mainland Caribbean

Diaspora

Mixed Ethnicities

From 1838 to 1917, over half a million Indians from the former British Raj or British India and Colonial India, were taken to thirteen mainland and island nations in the Caribbean as indentured workers to address the demand for sugar cane plantation labour following the abolition of slavery. Attempts at importing Portuguese, Chinese and others as indentured labourers had failed.

Much like cotton, sugarcane plantations motivated large scale near-enslavement and forced migrations in the 19th and early 20th century.

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