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Dear Mario,
Your post was informative indeed and I thoroughly
enjoyed reading it.
The term East Indians is used frequently among Goans
and East Indians themselves, and has some currency in
Mumbai. Largely the rest of India, remains ignorant
about so-called East Indians from Mumbai, as the only
legitimate East Indians are those that come from the
East of India, who never refer to themselves as such.
East Indians use this term to distinguish themselves
from Maharashtrans, which is what their ethnicity is.
The East Indians I have met use it obliquely to
associate themselves with the West be it a subtle
reference to the East India Company, their sometime
bi-racial background or their Western lifestyle as a
result of their long association with the East India
Company.
I think they should take a page from the Siddis of
India and call themselves, Indians or Maharashtrans
otherwise years from today we may have a few more
ethnic groups emerging, such as Wiproities,
Infosyities or maybe even Callcenterites.
Selma
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--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Then, as a young adult, I lived in Bandra where most
> of my friends were and still are, "East Indians".
> >
> Though the term was initially applied by the East
> India Company, "East Indians" are no more than
> ethnic
> Maharashtrians who were converted to Christianity
> just
> as our ancestors were converted (see below).
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