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Indo-Guyanese or Guyanese Indians, are Guyanese nationals of Indian origin who trace their ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent. They are the descendants of indentured servants and settlers who migrated from India beginning in 1838, and continuing during the British Raj. They are a subgroup of Indo-Caribbean people.
Although citizens make up the majority of Guyanese, there is a substantial number of Guyanese expatriates, dual citizens and descendants living worldwide, chiefly elsewhere in the Anglosphere. Located on the northern coast of South America, Guyana is part of the main land Caribbean which is part of the historical British West Indies.
Narsingh Deonarine, West Indian cricketer; Rohan Kanhai, former captain of the West Indies cricket team; Alvin Kallicharran, former captain of the West Indies cricket team; Mahendra Nagamootoo, West Indian cricketer; Kriskal Persaud, chess player; Harry Prowell, Marathon Olympian and British West Indies Champion in long-distance running
Within the West Indies context, the word is used only for one type of mixed race people: Afro-Indians. [2] The 2012 Guyana census identified 29.25% of the population as Afro-Guyanese, 39.83% as Indo-Guyanese, and 19.88% as "mixed," recognized as mostly representing the offspring of the former two groups. [3]
Clive Lloyd has captained the West Indies Test side a record 74 times. [2] Shivnarine Chanderpaul is the leading Guyanese run scorer in Tests and ODIs, having scored 11,867 runs in Tests and 8,778 in ODIs. With that being said, the only West Indian to have scored more than he did in tests is Brian Lara.
Ian McDonald (born 18 April 1933) is a Caribbean-born poet and writer who describes himself as "Antiguan by ancestry, Trinidadian by birth, Guyanese by adoption, and West Indian by conviction." His ancestry on his father's side is Antiguan and Kittitian , and Trinidadian on his mother's side.
The vast majority of non-Hispanic West Indian Americans are of mixed descent, with the remaining portion mainly multi-racial and Indo-Caribbean people, especially in the Guyanese, Trinidadian and Surinamese communities, where people of Indo-Caribbean descent make up a significant portion of the population.
The Guyanese-American community mostly consists of people of Indian and African origins although there are a few Indigenous Guyanese living in the United States. [ 10 ] As of 1990, 80 percent of Guyanese Americans lived in the northeastern United States , especially around New York City, which is home to over 140,000 people of Guyanese descent.