Indo-Jamaicans

Indo-Jamaicans
India Jamaica
Total population
21,584
Regions with significant populations
Portland, Westmoreland, Clarendon, Saint Andrew, Saint Catherine, Saint Mary, Kingston Parish
Languages
Mostly Jamaican English or Jamaican Patois; Caribbean Hindustani (to lesser extent and spoken by the descendants of Jahajis); Sindhi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kutchi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi-Urdu and other Indian languages (spoken by more recent immigrants)
Religion
Hinduism · Christianity · Islam · Sikhism
Related ethnic groups
Indo-Caribbean people
Indian people
Indian diaspora
Indo-Caribbean Americans
British Indo-Caribbean people
Indo-Fijians
Mauritians of Indian origin
Indian South Africans

Indo-Jamaicans are the descendants of people who came from India and the wider subcontinent to Jamaica. Indians form the third largest ethnic group in Jamaica after Africans and Multiracials.[1] They are a subgroup of Indo-Caribbean people.

  1. ^ "University of the West Indies". Uwi.edu. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2017.