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Indian or Indians refers to people or things related to India, or to the indigenous people of the Americas, or Aboriginal Australians until the 19th century.

Peoples

South Asia

• Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor
  • Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
• South Asian ethnic groups, referring to people of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the greater South Asia region prior to the 1947 partition of India
• Anglo-Indians, people with mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent
• East Indians, a Christian community in India

Europe

• British Indians, British people of Indian origin

The Americas

• Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America and their descendants
  • Plains Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains of North America
  • Native Americans in the United States, the indigenous people in the United States
    • Native American tribes, specific groups of Native Americans
  • Indigenous peoples in Canada
    • First Nations, the various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis
  • Indigenous peoples of South America, peoples living in South America in the pre-Columbian era and their descendants
  • Native Mexicans, indigenous people of Mexico
  • Indigenous peoples of Central America
  • Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean
• West Indians, people from the Caribbean region and the Lucayan Archipelago
• Mardi Gras Indians, African-American Carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, whose suits are influenced by Native American ceremonial apparel

Australia

• Aboriginal Australians, called "Indians" until the 19th century

Languages

• Indian English, a dialect of the English language used in India
• Indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America
• Languages of India, including Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages

Places

• Indian, West Virginia, a former unincorporated community in Kanawha County
• The Indians, an islet group in the British Virgin Islands
• Indian Creek (disambiguation)
• Indian Island (disambiguation)
• Indian River (disambiguation), several rivers and communities
• Indian Run (disambiguation), streams in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and West Virginia
• Indian subcontinent
• Indian Ocean

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Indian cinema

Films

• Indian (1996 film), a Tamil film
• Indian (2001 film), a Hindi film

Music

• Indians (musician), moniker of Danish singer Søren Løkke Juul accompanied by some musicians also collectively known as Indians
• "Indian" (song), by Sturm und Drang
• Indian (soundtrack), an album from the 1996 film
• "Indians" (song), by Anthrax

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Indian (card game), a simple card game that involves strategy
• Indian soap opera, soap operas written, produced, and filmed in India
• Indians (play), a 1968 play by Arthur Kopit
• Indians (sculpture), a name for The Bowman and The Spearman, sculptures by Ivan Meštrović

Businesses

• Indian (airline), a now defunct state-owned airline of India, merged with Air India
• Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company, an American company later called Indian Manufacturing Company, that produced the brand "Indian motorcycles" from 1901 to 1953

Sport

• Cleveland Indians, an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, US
• Frölunda HC or Frölunda Indians, a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Gothenburg, Sweden
• Hannover Indians, a German ice hockey club based in Hannover, Germany
• Indian Arrows, developmental football team of All India Football Federation
• Indianapolis Indians, an American minor league baseball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, US
• Indios de Mayagüez, a baseball team in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League
• Mumbai Indians, a franchise cricket team representing the city of Mumbai, India in the Indian Premier League
• Springfield Indians, an American minor professional ice hockey franchise, originally based in West Springfield, Massachusetts, US

Other uses

• Indian cuisine, a wide variety of regional cuisines native to India
• Indian Head cent, a coin produced by the United States Mint from 1859 to 1909

See also

• Hindustani (disambiguation)
• Indica (disambiguation)
• Indian Point (disambiguation)
• India (disambiguation)
• Indicum (disambiguation)
• Indicus (disambiguation)
• Indus (constellation), a constellation in the southern sky
• Native American name controversy, discussion about terminology to describe indigenous peoples of the Americas
• East Indies
• West Indies