South Asians in the Philippines

Infobox Ethnic group
group = South Asians in the Philippines

flagicon|India flagicon|Philippines
caption =
population = 80,000 [Harvnb|Mansigh|2000|p= [http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter20.pdf 253] (see table 20.1)]
regions = Metro Manila, Visayas, Cainta, Cebu City, Davao
languages = Tagalog, Cebuano (in Cebu and Davao), Indian languages, English
religions = 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 name of Bombay city.

ubsets

The largest Indian community would be the Sindhi, who number around 21,000, Punjabis, and Tamils.Fact|date=February 2008 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, and Spanish Filipinos for those who have fair skin.

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.

Religion

Most South Asians in the Philippines practice Hinduism and Sikhism, while some practice Islam. Some Sri Lankans also practice Buddhism.

History

India had greatly influenced the many different cultures of the Philippines through the Indianized Empires of the Buddhist Srivijaya and the Hindu Majapahit. [Citation
chapter-url=http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Pool/1644/precolonial.html
chapter=Pre Colonial Period
url=http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Pool/1644/
title=An Online Guide to Philippine History
publisher=geocities.comCollegePark/Pool
accessdate=2008-05-17verify credibility|date=May 2008] 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. [Harvnb|Rye|2006|p=713] As of 2006, between 70 and 75 percent of Indians in the Philippines lived in Metro Manila, with the largest community outside of Manila beingin Isabela province. [Harvnb|Rye|2006|pp=720-721] The region in and around Cainta still has many Sepoy descendants.

Notes

References

*Citation
last=Mansingh
first=Lalit
title=Report of the High Level Committee On Indian Diaspora
year=2000
url=http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/contents.htm
chapter=20. Southeast Asia
chapter-url=http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter20.pdf
*Citation
last=Rye
first=Ajit Singh
chapter=The Indian Community in the Philippines
pages=707-773
editor-last1=Sandhu
editor-first1=Kernial Singh
editor-last2=Mani
editor-first2=A.
title=Indian Communities in Southeast Asia|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asia studies
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=TeExjdWUmJYC
publisher=Institute of SoutheastAsian Studies
year=2006
isbn=9812304185
*Citation
last=Sharma
first=Jagdish Chandra
title=Hindu Temples in Vietnam
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=cmreAAAACAAJ
chapter-url=
publisher=The Offsetters
isbn=8171230679
year=1997
author=Jagdish Chandra Sharma
accessdate=2008-01-28

External links

* [http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter20.pdf Indian Diaspora in Philippines]
* [http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/002957.html Why does the Philippines dislike India?]
* [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indians_Abroad/An_Indian_dream_turns_iɖnto_nightmare_in_Philippines/articleshow/2630173.cms An Indian dream turns into nightmare in Philippines]
* [http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Glimpses_XV.htm Indic Influence in Philippines]
* [http://www.rpindia.info/home.php Philippines-India Community Guide]

ee also

*Hinduism in the Philippines
*Buddhism in the Philippines
*Cainta, Rizal