Indian

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 Indians (used to be called Red Indians though this is now commonly considered offensive) prefer to call themselves Native Americans (alternatively American Indians); or, in Canada, First Nations or Aboriginal People. 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 slavess, are called West Indians.
• The people of the East Indies (Indonesia) used to be called East Indians
• A classic American motorcycle, once defunct, now being manufactured again. See Indian (motorcycle).
• The mascot of the Cleveland Indians baseball team in the U.S.
• Indians, a Chicago monument created by Ivan Mestrovic.
• India ink is a carbon based ink.
• Indians is the title of a play.
• Indian is a 1996 Tamil movie by Shankar starring Kamal Haasan and music composed by A.R. Rahman.