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  2. West Indian - Wikipedia

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    A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).In the 1597 Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term West Indian initially described the indigenous inhabitants of the West Indies, by 1661 the term defined "an inhabitant or native of the West Indies, of European origin or descent."

  3. Indo-Aryan peoples - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups primarily concentrated in South Asia This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (January 2021) (Learn ...

  4. West Indian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Caribbean Americans or West Indian Americans are Americans who trace their ancestry to the West Indies in particular or Caribbean in general. Caribbean Americans are a multi-ethnic and multi-racial group that trace their ancestry further in time to Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. As of 2016, about 13 million ...

  5. Farhang-e-Asifiya - Wikipedia

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    Farhang-e-Asifiya (Urdu: فرہنگ آصفیہ, lit. 'The Dictionary of Asif') is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary compiled by Syed Ahmad Dehlvi. [1] It has more than 60,000 entries in four volumes. [2] It was first published in January 1901 by Rifah-e-Aam Press in Lahore, present-day Pakistan. [3] [4]

  6. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Although Urdu is still very prominent in early 21st-century Indian pop culture, ranging from Bollywood [125] to social media, knowledge of the Urdu script and the publication of books in Urdu have steadily declined, while policies of the Indian government do not actively support the preservation of Urdu in professional and official spaces. [127]

  7. Ethnic groups in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Muhajirs (meaning "migrants"), are a collective multiethnic group who emerged through the migration of Indian Muslims from various parts of India to Pakistan starting in 1947, as a result of the world's largest mass migration. [25] [26] The majority of Muhajirs are settled in Sindh mainly in Karachi and Hyderabad.

  8. Desi - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Indian subcontinent, depicting the republics of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan from which Desis originate [1]. Desi [a] (/ ˈ d eɪ s i / or / ˈ d ɛ s i / [2] DAY-see or DESS-ee; Hindustani: देसी (), دیسی (Perso-Arabic), Hindustani:) [b] also Deshi, is a loose term used to describe the peoples, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora, [4 ...

  9. Siddi - Wikipedia

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    The Siddi (pronounced), also known as the Sheedi, Sidi, or Siddhi, are an ethnic minority group inhabiting Pakistan and India.They are primarily descended from the Bantu peoples of the Zanj coast in Southeast Africa, most of whom came to the Indian subcontinent through the Indian Ocean slave trade. [6]