Shaitaan is fullah (no pun intended) shit
he is making the Hindutva argument which is a nationalist one rooted in INDIA (the modern nation) and Hinduism
"Indian" was never a 'race' in the nomenclature commonly used to classify broad phenotypical categories subdividing humanity
it is a vernacular term used loosely to describe the Indo-Aryan peoples of the great British "Indian" empire of the 19th Century
there is a very good reason the term "South Asian" has emerged today to describe the peoples of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
i don't know any Afghan, Pakistani or Sri Lankan "coolies" who describe themselves as "Indian"
i'm sure we all understand why
I always hesitate to respond to your silly sophistry on every issue. It's your bread and butter on GNI.
This term "South Asian" is an invented term which largely seeks to placate the other states of the Indian Subcontinent who are not called India and who for different reasons are loathe to be confused with India like Pakistan.
The fact is that we are are some polyglot Hispanic-type people. We are "Indian."
We are racially "Indian." The reason that we were never classified formally in the 19th century by our British overlords as "Indian" was primarily for political reasons and for reasons of scientific racism.
Guyanese Indians do not largely know of this "South Asian" identity or would even care to use it because we have no affiliation or affinity to any entity that came into being post-1947. It is an empty meaningless term.
But we all live in reality, there is a notion of what a typical Indian looks like. We can all recognize each other with rare exception. So an Indian race exists.
The fact that I'm arguing with you over whether or not "Indians" are a race is beyond believable to me. You question our right to be or you're just engaging in some pointless sophistry.
All Guyanese Indians must be under some mass delusion or misapprehension in thinking they are racially Indian. My mother, my father, my grandparents, my great-grandparents. All aweh wrang? Are we not able to self-define and self-identity without the approbation of redux and the Colonial Office?
If we ain't Indian, then is we Black or white or mongoloid?