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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
United Kingdom Cayman Islands 732+
 Antigua and Barbuda 300
United Kingdom British Virgin Islands 258
 Haiti 200
United Kingdom Anguilla 100
United Kingdom Montserrat 40
Languages
Colonial Languages: Indian Languages:
Religion
Predominantly: Minority:
Related ethnic groups

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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