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West Indian. A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago ). In the 1597 Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term West Indian initially described the indigenous inhabitants of the West Indies, by 1661 the term defined "an inhabitant or native of the West Indies, of European ...
A Federação das Índias Ocidentais (em inglês: West Indies Federation, Federation of the West Indies ou West Indian Federation) [ 2][ 3] foi uma união política criada a 3 de janeiro de 1958, em que se agrupava várias ilhas do Caribe (Caraíbas) que eram colônias britânicas, a saber: Trindade e Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica e as ...
Western India is a loosely defined region of India consisting of western states of Republic of India. The Ministry of Home Affairs in its Western Zonal Council Administrative division includes the states of Goa , Gujarat , and Maharashtra along with the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu , [1] while the ...
The West Indies Federation, also known as the West Indies, the Federation of the West Indies or the West Indian Federation, was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962.
The West Indies is a crescent-shaped group of islands separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north. The islands stretch 1,200 miles southeastward from Florida, then 500 miles south, then west along the north coast of Venezuela.
India, officially the Republic of India ( ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [22] [23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.
The West Indian migration to the modern United States began in the colonial period, when many West Indians were imported as slaves to the British colonies of North America. First people from West Indies who arrived in the United States were slaves brought to South Carolina in the 17th century.
