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The term Indian can refer to:- Anything from or related to the country of India
- Inhabitants of the Asian country of India; sometimes called Asian Indians to differentiate from American Indians. See Demographics of India.
- (archaic) aboriginal people in general,
- Those aboriginal peoples of the Americas first misidentified by Christopher Columbus who thought that he had reached the East Indies.
- Some U.S. Natives call themselves Indians, although this may be considered offensive. It is considered more correct to refer to American aboriginal people as Native Americans. In Canada, First Nations or Aboriginal People are the preferred terms, though Indian is also used by many within First Nations communities. Others believe the idea of Indians (or Native Americans or First Nations) represents a Eurocentric point of view and consider themselves members of a tribe or nation, identifying only with the name of their tribe in their own native language; often this name is a word which translates as, "the people".
- People from the West Indies, most of them not aboriginal, but the descendants of slaveSlavery is involuntary servitude, enforced by violence or other, clear forms of coercion. It is sometimes regarded as an expectation associated with other relationships, such as marriage and/or other family relations, military service, or debt relationshis, are called West Indians.
- The people of the East Indies are called East Indians
- A classic American motorcycleA motorcycle (or motorbike is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. The wheels are in-line, and at higher speed the motorcycle remains upright and stable by virtue of gyroscopic forces; at lower speeds continual readjustment of the steering by the r, once defunct, now being manufactured again. See Indian (motorcycle)The Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company America's oldest and iconic motorcycle brand, was founded as the Hendee Manufacturing Company by George M. Hendee and C. Oscar Hedstrom in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1901, two years before Harley Davidson Mot.
- The mascot of the Cleveland IndiansBaseball teams The Cleveland Indians are a Major League Baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of the American League. Founded 1901 (charter American League member) Formerly known as the Cleveland Blues ( 1901), Broncos o baseball team in the U.S.
- , a Chicago monumentA monument is a structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons rather than for any overtly functional use. The Broken Ring a monument to the breach of the Blockade of Leningrad Monuments are usually created for the dual function of commemorating an created by Ivan Meštrovic.
- India ink is a carbon based ink.
- The constellation called Indus.
- Indian Queens is a village near Newquay in Cornwall in England.
- Indians is the title of a play by Arthur Kopit
- Indian is a 1996 Tamil movie by Shankar starring Kamal Haasan and music composed by A.R. Rahman.
- If you are interested in the written and spoken languages of India, there are many: Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi (official), Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
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