South Asians in the Philippines
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{{Infobox Ethnic group |group = South Asians in the Philippines |image = 
|caption = |population = Unknown[1] |regions = Metro Manila, Visayas, Cainta, Cebu City, Davao |languages = Tagalog, Cebuano (in Cebu and Davao), Indian languages, English |religions = [[Hinduism in the Philippines|Hinduism Sikhism, Islam, Roman Catholicism}}
South Asians in the Philippines are Philippine citizens of South Asian descent and citizens of South Asian countries living in Philippines. The term Bumbay, loosely applied to all South Asians in the country (including those of Pakistani descent and Bangladeshi descent), regardless of ethnicity or religion, was a corruption of the city in India known as Bombay. It is considered derogatory.
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[edit] Subsets
The largest Indian community would be the Sindhi, who number around 21,000, Punjabis, and Tamils.[citation needed] Indian ethnic groups’ appearances are very distinguished to native Filipinos whether dark-, brown-, or fair-skinned, but Indian mestizos may be treated like native Filipinos for those who have brown skin dark skin, for those who have fair skin.
[edit] Language
They speak various Indian languages, most notably Punjabi, Hindi, and Tamil. They also speak Tagalog and Cebuano (the latter spoken in Cebu and Davao). As India is also a large English-speaking nation, they chose Philippines as their destination to study English as Philippines is the third largest English-speaking country.
[edit] Religion
Most South Asians in the Philippines practice Hinduism, while some practice Sikhism, and Islam. Some Sri Lankans also practice Buddhism.
[edit] History
India had greatly influenced the many different cultures of the Philippines through the Indianized Empires of the Buddhist Srivijaya and the Hindu Majapahit.[2]
Indian presence in the Philippines has been ongoing since prehistoric times along with the Chinese and Japanese, predating even the coming of the Europeans by at least two centuries. Indians, together with the natives of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula, traded with natives and introduced and passed Hinduism and Buddhism to the natives of the Philippines. Most of them stayed in the Philippines where they were slowly absorbed to native society.
Sepoy troops from Chennai of Tamil Nadu, of India also arrived with the British expedition and occupation between 1762 and 1764 during the Seven Years' War. When the British withdrew, many of the Sepoys mutinied and refused to leave. Virtually all had taken Filipina brides (or soon did so). They settled in what is now Cainta, Rizal, just east of Metro Manila. The region in and around Cainta still has many Sepoy descendants.
[edit] References
- ^ Jagdish Chandra Sharma (1997), “20. South East Asia”, Hindu Temples in Vietnam, The Offsetters, p. 253, ISBN 8171230679, <http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter20.pdf>. Retrieved on 28 January 2008 (table 20.1)[copyvio source?]
- ^ An Online Guide to Philippine History: Pre Colonial Period, http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Pool/1644/, <http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Pool/1644/precolonial.html>. Retrieved on 17 May 2008[unreliable source?]
[edit] External links
- Indian Diaspora in Philippines
- Why does the Philippines dislike India?
- An Indian dream turns into nightmare in Philippines
- Indic Influence in Philippines
[edit] See also
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