(At least one scholar has set the level lower, finding a total of 716 Indian immigrants to the U.S. The first Sikh Gurudwara was established in 1912 by the early immigrant Sikh farmers in Stockton, California.īy 1900, there were more than two thousand Indian Sikhs living in the United States, primarily in California. Indian Americans are included in the census grouping of ' South Asian Americans', which includes Bangladeshi Americans, Bhutanese Americans, Nepalese Americans, Pakistani Americans, and Sri Lankan Americans. While 'East Indian' remains in use, the term 'Indian' and ' South Asian' is often chosen instead for academic and governmental purposes.
Since the 1980s, Indian Americans have been categorized as 'Asian Indian' (within the broader subgroup of Asian American) by the United States Census Bureau. government has since coined the term 'Native American' in reference to the indigenous people of the United States, but terms such as 'American Indian' remain among indigenous as well as non-indigenous populations. Qualifying terms such as ' American Indian' and ' East Indian' were and still are commonly used in order to avoid ambiguity.
In the Americas, the term 'Indian' had historically been used to describe indigenous people since European colonization in the 15th century. states by the population of Asian Indians metropolitan areas with large Asian Indian populations
