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{{short description|Filipinos of Indian descent}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Indians in the Philippines, Indian Filipinos
| native_name = Indyanong Pilipino/Indyanong Pinoy/Bumbay (colloquial)/Turko (Cebuano reference)
| native_name_lang =
| image =
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| population = As of the year 2018, there are over 120,000 Indians alone in the Philippines, not including illegal Indian immigrants and Filipinos of Indian descent.<ref name="mea.gov.in">{{Cite web |date=31 December 2018 |title=Population of Overseas Indians |url=http://mea.gov.in/images/attach/NRIs-and-PIOs_1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225053337/http://mea.gov.in/error.htm?aspxerrorpath=%2Fimages%2Fattach%2FNRIs-and-PIOs_1.pdf |archive-date=25 December 2018 |access-date=18 April 2019 |publisher=[[Ministry of External Affairs (India)]]}}</ref> Furthermore, according to a Y-DNA compilation by the DNA company ''Applied Biosystems'', they calculated an estimated 1% frequency of the South Asian Y-DNA "[[Haplogroup H (Y-DNA)|H1a]]" in the Philippines. Thus translating to about 1,011,864 Filipinos having full or partial Indian descent, not including other Filipinos in the Philippines and Filipinos abroad whose DNA ([[Y-DNA]]) have not been analyzed.<ref name="Applied Biosystems Y-DNA">{{Cite web |url=http://www6.appliedbiosystems.com/yfilerdatabase/ |title=With a sample population of 105 Filipinos, the company of ''Applied Biosystems'', analysed the Y-DNA of average Filipinos and it is discovered that about 0.95% of the samples have the Y-DNA Haplotype "H1a", which is most common in South Asia and had spread to the Philippines via precolonial Indian missionaries who spread Hinduism and established Indic Rajahnates like Cebu and Butuan. |access-date=26 December 2018 |archive-date=25 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525082812/http://www6.appliedbiosystems.com/yfilerdatabase/ }}</ref>{{efn-ua|The number of Filipinos of full or partial Indian descent is unknown as a great portion of the community has merged with the rest of the population therefore making it impossible to gather accurate statistical figures within the Philippines.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39lJz_L4MdUC&pg=PA537|title=Rising India and Indian Communities in East Asia|first1=K.|last1=Kesavapany|first2=A.|last2=Mani|first3=P.|last3=Ramasamy|date=18 December 2017|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|via=Google Books|isbn=978-981-230-799-6}}</ref>}}
| regions = {{hlist|[[Metro Manila]]|[[Cainta, Rizal|Cainta]]|[[Cebu City]]|[[Davao City]]|[[Cagayan de Oro]]|[[Iloilo City]]|[[Bacolod]]}}
| languages = {{hlist|[[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]|[[Sindhi language|Sindhi]]|[[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]|[[Tagalog language|Tagalog]]|[[Cebuano language|Cebuano]]|[[Hiligaynon language|Hiligaynon]]|[[Ilocano language|Ilocano]]|[[Philippine English|English]]|[[Languages of India|Various Indian languages]]}}
| religions = {{hlist|[[Hinduism in the Philippines|Hinduism]]|[[Sikhism]]|[[Christianity in the Philippines|Christianity]] (especially [[Catholic Church in the Philippines|Catholic Christianity]])|[[Buddhism in the Philippines|Buddhism]]|[[Islam in the Philippines|Islam]]|[[Jainism]]}}
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'''Indian Filipinos''' are [[Philippine nationality law|Filipinos]] of Indian descent who have historical connections with and have established themselves in what is now the [[Philippines]]. The term refers to Filipino citizens of either pure or mixed Indian descent currently residing in the country, the latter a result of intermarriages between the Indians and local populations.

Archaeological evidence shows the existence of trade between the [[Indian subcontinent]] and the Philippine Islands at least since the ninth and tenth centuries B.C.<ref name="tamilculturewaterloo"/> As of the year 2018, there are over 120,000 Indians in the Philippines.<ref name="mea.gov.in">{{Cite web |date=31 December 2018 |title=Population of Overseas Indians |url=http://mea.gov.in/images/attach/NRIs-and-PIOs_1.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225053337/http://mea.gov.in/error.htm?aspxerrorpath=%2Fimages%2Fattach%2FNRIs-and-PIOs_1.pdf |archive-date=25 December 2018 |access-date=18 April 2019 |publisher=[[Ministry of External Affairs (India)]]}}</ref> Indians in the Philippines have generally arrived in four waves since pre-colonial times: Indian merchants and traders who visited the Philippines regularly from India and Southeast Asia; slaves from South India and Bengal, who made up the majority of slaves imported into the Philippines by the Spanish in the 1500s and 1600s; Indian soldiers and [[sepoy]]s who arrived in the Philippines and mutinied during the [[British occupation of Manila|British occupation of the Manila]] in the 1760s, deserting and intermarrying with native Filipinos; and the fourth wave, continuing to the present of Indians who have immigrated to the Philippines since the 1890s for work, education, and business, with this number continuing to grow as relations between the Philippines and India continue.

The first census in the Philippines was in 1591, based on tributes collected. The tributes counted the total founding population of the Spanish-Philippines as 667,612 people.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pearson|first=M. N.|date=1969|title=The Spanish 'Impact' on the Philippines, 1565-1770|journal=Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient|volume=12|issue=2|pages=165–186|doi=10.2307/3596057|jstor=3596057
| publisher= Brill
|issn=0022-4995}}</ref>{{rp|177}}<ref>The Unlucky Country: The Republic of the Philippines in the 21st Century By Duncan Alexander McKenzie (page xii)</ref><ref>[https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2011PY_Demography.pdf Demography Philippine Yearbook 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024185935/https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2011PY_Demography.pdf |date=October 24, 2021 }} Page 3</ref> 20,000 were Chinese migrant traders,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QEjPVyd9YMC
|chapter=Chinese in Thailand
|date=2005
| author= Bao Jiemin
| pages = 759–785
|title=Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures around the World, Volume 1 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-306-48321-9
|editor1=Carol R. Ember |editor2=Melvin Ember |editor3=Ian A. Skoggard}}{{rp|751}}</ref> at different times: around 15,600 individuals were Latino soldier-colonists who were cumulatively sent from Peru and Mexico and they were shipped to the Philippines annually,<ref>Stephanie Mawson, 'Between Loyalty and Disobedience: The Limits of Spanish Domination in the Seventeenth Century Pacific' (Univ. of Sydney M.Phil. thesis, 2014), appendix 3.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/past/article/232/1/87/1752419
| title= Convicts or Conquistadores? Spanish Soldiers in the Seventeenth Century Pacific
| first= Stephanie J.
|last = Mawson
| journal= Past & Present
| issue= 232 | date= August 2016
|pages= 87–125

| publisher= Oxford Academic| doi= 10.1093/pastj/gtw008
}}</ref> 3,000 were Japanese residents,<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Japanese Christian |url=http://ph.pagenation.com/mnl/Paco_120.9997_14.5808.map |location=Philippines |publisher=Google map of Paco district of Manila, Philippines |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100507124349/http://ph.pagenation.com/mnl/Paco_120.9997_14.5808.map |archive-date=May 7, 2010}}</ref> and 600 were pure Spaniards from Europe.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.uco.es/aaf/garcia-abasolo/files/63df3.pdf| title = Spanish Settlers in the Philippines (1571–1599) By Antonio Garcia-Abasalo| access-date = November 23, 2020| archive-date = January 17, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210117225634/https://www.uco.es/aaf/garcia-abasolo/files/63df3.pdf| url-status = live}}</ref> There was a large but unknown number of [[Indian Filipinos|South Asian Filipinos]], as the majority of the slaves imported into the archipelago were from [[Bengal]] and Southern India,<ref>[https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/333213/azu_etd_13473_sip1_m.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y&title=repository.arizona.edu Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720 By Furlong, Matthew J.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429034134/https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/333213/azu_etd_13473_sip1_m.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y&title=repository.arizona.edu |date=April 29, 2022 }} "Slaves purchased by the indigenous elites, Spanish and Hokkiens of the colony seemed drawn most often from South Asia, particularly Bengal and South India, and less so, from other sources, such as East Africa, Brunei, Makassar, and Java..." Chapter 2 "Rural Ethnic Diversity" Page 164 (Translated from: "Inmaculada Alva Rodríguez, Vida municipal en Manila (siglos xvi-xvii) (Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba, 1997), 31, 35-36."</ref> adding [[Dravidian language|Dravidian]] speaking South Indians and [[Indo-European language|Indo-European]] speaking [[Bengalis]] into the ethnic mix.

In addition, Indian-Filipino unions and marriages are very common in countries with large populations of both nationalities, such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Canada, and Australia.

==History==

===Prehistory===
Indian genetic signatures found among the [[Sama-Bajau#Subgroups|Dilaut]] native ethnic group of the Sulu archipelago show that Indian immigration to the Philippines happened even before the start of formal written Philippine history.<ref name="Larenab" />

===Ancient history===
{{see also | Indian influences in early Philippine polities | Hinduism in the Philippines | Religion in pre-colonial Philippines | Greater India | Indosphere | Indianisation | List of India-related topics in the Philippines | History of Indian influence on Southeast Asia }}

[[Iron Age]] finds in Philippines also point to the existence of trade between the [[Indian subcontinent|Indian Subcontinent]] and the Philippine Islands during the ninth and tenth centuries B.C.<ref name="tamilculturewaterloo">{{cite web|url=http://www.tamilculturewaterloo.org/tamillanguage.htm |title=Tamil Cultural Association – Tamil Language |publisher=tamilculturewaterloo.org |access-date=24 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413062503/http://tamilculturewaterloo.org/tamillanguage.htm |archive-date=13 April 2015 }}</ref> India had greatly influenced the many different cultures of the Philippines through the [[Indianized kingdom]] of the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] [[Majapahit Empire|Majapahit]] and the [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[Srivijaya]]. For at least two millennia before the arrival of the Spanish, Philippines was ruled by [[Hindu king]]s called Rajahs and Pramukhas. Numerous kings with written genealogies and Sanskrit names were found by Spanish warlords and friars.{{cn|date=January 2026}} Indian presence in the Philippines has been ongoing since ancient times along with the [[Japanese people]] and the [[Han Chinese]] and Arab and Persian traders, predating even the coming of the Europeans by at least two millennia. [[India|Indian people]] together with the natives of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula, who came as traders introduced [[Hinduism]] to the natives of the Philippines. Indian migrants have been crucial in the establishment of several Indianized kingdoms ruled by 'rajahs' in the Philippines, such as that of [[Rajahnate of Butuan|Butuan]] and [[Rajahnate of Cebu|Cebu]]. Indian [[Bania (caste)|Bania]] converts to Islam brought [[sunni Islam|Sunni]] [[Islam]] to the Philippine islands in the course of trade, which was later enhanced and strengthened by Arab Muslim Sea traders to Mindanao and Sulu Sultanate.<ref name="philippinealmanac">{{cite web|url=http://www.philippinealmanac.com/2010/07/528/the-cultural-influences-of-india-china-arabia-and-japan.html |title=2010/07/528/the-cultural-influences-of-india-china-arabia-and-japan |publisher=philippinealmanac.com |access-date=24 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701082957/http://www.philippinealmanac.com/2010/07/528/the-cultural-influences-of-india-china-arabia-and-japan.html |archive-date=1 July 2012 }}</ref>

The semi-legendary first Rajah and founder of [[Cebu (historical polity)|Cebu]], [[Sri Lumay|Sri Rajahmura Lumaya]], whose existence is only confirmed through oral tradition in the Cebuano epic ''Aginid, Bayok sa atong Tawarik'', was said to be of [[Tamils|Tamil]] and [[Malays (ethnic group)|Malay]] ancestry from Sumatra.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ouano-Savellon |first=Romola |date=2014 |title="Aginid Bayok Sa Atong Tawarik": Archaic Cebuano and Historicity in a Folk Narrative |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44512020 |journal=Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society |volume=42 |issue=3/4 |pages=189–220 |jstor=44512020 }}</ref>

By the 17th century, [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] merchants with the aid of [[Khoja]] and Bohri ship-owners had developed an international transoceanic empire which had a network of agents stationed at the great port cities across the [[Indian Ocean]]. These networks extended to the Philippines in the east, East Africa in the west and via maritime and the inland caravan route to Russia in the north.<ref>{{cite book|title=The South Asian Diaspora: Transnational Networks and Changing Identities|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-10595-3|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bwJD2WBNtNMC&q=gujarati%2C+philippines&pg=PA28|editor=Rajesh Rai, Peter Reeves|access-date=4 October 2013}}</ref>

===Colonial Period===
{{multiple image
| align = right
| direction = vertical
| width = 200
| header = Indian Filipinos on the [[Velarde map]], 1754
| image1 = Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de la Yslas Filipinas MANILA, 1734 - Detail, Cafres.jpg
| alt1 = Panel 1
| caption1 = A "Canarin" ([[Konkani people|Konkani]]) and a [[Lascar]], right side
| image2 = A smoking Armenian a Mughal and a Malabar native, detail from Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas (1734).jpg
| alt2 = Panel 2
| caption2 = A [[Mughal people|Mughal]] and a "[[Malabar region|Malabar]]", right side
}}
During the Spanish era, the chief source of slaves bought by Spanish administrators, native Filipino nobilities, and Chinese merchants in the Philippines, were: [[India]] and [[Bengal]]. Together they formed a cosmopolitan community in even the rural areas of the country.<ref>[https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/333213/azu_etd_13473_sip1_m.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y&title=repository.arizona.edu Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720 By Furlong, Matthew J.] "Slaves purchased by the indigenous elites, Spanish and Hokkiens of the colony seemed drawn most often from South Asia, particularly Bengal and South India, and less so, from other sources, such as East Africa, Brunei, Makassar, and Java..." Chapter 2 "Rural Ethnic Diversity" Page 164 (Translated from: "Inmaculada Alva Rodríguez, Vida municipal en Manila (siglos xvi-xvii) (Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba, 1997), 31, 35-36."</ref> Sepoy troops from Madras (now [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]]), British India also arrived with the [[Battle of Manila (1762)|British expedition and occupation between 1762 and 1764]] during the [[Seven Years' War]]. When the British withdrew, many of the [[Sepoy]]s (Army privates) mutinied and refused to leave. Virtually all had taken native brides (or soon did so). They settled in what is Cainta, in what was then the Province of Manila (currently part of [[Rizal Province]]).<ref>{{Harvnb|Rye|2006|p=713}}</ref> As of 2006, between 70 and 75 percent of Indians in the Philippines lived in Metro Manila, with the largest community outside of Manila being in [[Isabela (province)|Isabela]] province.<ref>{{Harvnb|Rye|2006|pp=720–721}}</ref> The region in and around Cainta still has many Sepoy descendants.

However, Indian business people started to arrive in larger numbers in The Philippines during the American colonial period (1898–1930s) – especially during the 1930s and 1940s, when many Indians and Indian Filipinos lived in Filipino provinces, including [[Davao City|Davao]]. The longest serving [[mayor of Manila]], [[Ramon Bagatsing]], was of Indian-Punjabi descent, having moved to [[Manila]] from [[Fabrica, Sagay|Fabrica]], [[Negros Occidental]] before the second world war.

A second surge of Indian businessmen, especially Sindhis arrived in Philippines during the [[Partition of India]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/1198|title=Rising India and Indian communities in East Asia|last=K.Kesavapany|first=A.Mani and P.Ramaswamy|date=2008|publisher=LSEAS Publishing|isbn=978-981-230-799-6}}</ref>

===Present===
Most of the Indians and Indian Filipinos in the Philippines are [[Sindhi people|Sindhi]] and [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] as well as a large [[Tamil people|Tamil]] population. Many are fluent in [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] and English as well as local languages of the provinces and islands. Many are prosperous middle class with their main occupations in [[clothing]] sales and marketing. [[Sikhs]] are involved largely in [[finance]], money lending (locally called ''Five – six''<ref>{{cite web|title=Indians in the Philippines|url=http://www.phindia.info/expats.php|work=Philippines Indian Business and Community guide|publisher=phindia.info|access-date=21 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119094041/http://phindia.info/expats.php|archive-date=19 January 2014}}</ref>), [[sales]] and marketing.

Over the last three decades, a large number of civil servants and highly educated Indians working in large banks, [[Asian Development Bank]] and the [[Business process outsourcing in the Philippines|BPO]] sector have migrated to Philippines, especially Manila.<ref>{{cite web|title=Departments and offices|url=http://www.adb.org/about/departments-offices |work=Organisation|publisher=Asian Development Bank (ADB)|access-date=21 January 2014}}</ref> Most of the Indian Filipinos and Indian expatriates are [[Hindu]], [[Sikh]], [[Christians]] or [[Muslims]], but have assimilated into Filipino culture. The community regularly conducts philanthropic activities through bodies such as the Mahaveer foundation, The SEVA foundation<ref>{{cite web|title=Community work|url=http://www.phindia.info/community.php|publisher=phindia.info|access-date=21 January 2014|archive-date=19 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119090609/http://phindia.info/community.php}}</ref> and the [[Sathya Sai Organization|Sathya Sai organization]].<ref>{{cite web|title=International Sai Haiyan mission|url=http://www.sathyasaiphilippines.org/author/radha/|publisher=Sathya Sai Organization|access-date=21 January 2014}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Most Indians congregate for socio-cultural and religious activities at the Hindu Temple (Mahatma Gandhi Street, Paco, Manila), the Indian Sikh Temple (United Nations Avenue, Paco, Manila), and the Radha Soami Satsang Beas center (Alabang, Muntinlupa, Metro Manila).

Many Indians have intermarried with Filipinos, more so than in neighboring countries such as [[Indonesia]], [[Malaysia]], and [[Singapore]], mainly because their populations are largely [[Muslim]], and the Indians there (with the exception of Indian-Muslims) are averse to marrying [[Muslims]] in those host countries.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Indian Communities in Southeast Asia (First Reprint 2006)|author1=Sandhu, K.S.|author2=Mani, A.|date=1993|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-230-418-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeExjdWUmJYC&pg=PA707|page=707|access-date=24 July 2015}}</ref>

Indian Filipino companies with the largest work force include Indo Phil Textile (1,800 employees), Global Steel (950 employees and 8,000 in Iligan), Hinduja Global (3,500 workers) and Aegis People Support (over 12,000).<ref>{{cite news|last=Enriquez|first=march|title=Meet some of PH's Fil-Indian businessmen|url=http://business.inquirer.net/24959/meet-some-of-ph%E2%80%99s-fil-indian-businessmen|access-date=18 March 2014|newspaper=Inquirer|date=15 October 2011}}</ref>

== Demography and DNA studies ==

According to the [[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'s DNA study covering 80,000 Filipinos in 2008–2009, "The Genographic Project", 3% of the average Filipino's genes are of South Asian origin.<ref name=natgeo1>{{cite web|url=https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/reference-populations-next-gen/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407092418/https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/reference-populations-next-gen/|archive-date=7 April 2016|title=Reference Populations – Geno 2.0 Next Generation}}</ref> 3 percent equates to nearly 3,300,000<ref name=worldmeter1>[https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/philippines-population/ Current total Philippines population], worldometers, accessed on: 19 June 2020.</ref> Filipinos living in Philippines having full or partial Indian descent as of June 2020.

The Indian [[Mitochondrial DNA]] [[mtDNA haplogroup|hapolgroup]]s, M52'58 and M52a are also present in the Philippines suggesting that there was Indian migration to the archipelago starting from the 5th Century AD.<ref>{{cite journal
| last = Delfin
| first = Frederick
| date = 12 June 2013
| title = Complete mtDNA genomes of Filipino ethnolinguistic groups: a melting pot of recent and ancient lineages in the Asia-Pacific regio
| journal = European Journal of Human Genetics
| volume = 22
| issue = 2
| pages = 228–237
| doi = 10.1038/ejhg.2013.122
| pmid = 23756438
| pmc = 3895641
| quote = Indian influence and possibly haplogroups M52'58 and M52a were brought to the Philippines as early as the fifth century AD. However, Indian influence through these trade empires were indirect and mainly commercial; moreover, other Southeast Asian groups served as filters that diluted and/or enriched any Indian influence that reached the Philippines
}}</ref>

According to another much smaller study by the ''Applied Biosystems'', a DNA company which undertook [[Y-DNA]] compilation, calculated an estimated 1% frequency of the South Asian Y-DNA "[[Haplogroup H (Y-DNA)|H1a]]" in the Philippines. Thus translating to about 1,011,864 Filipinos having full or partial Indian descent, not including other Filipinos in the Philippines and Filipinos abroad whose DNA ([[Y-DNA]]) have not been analyzed.<ref name="Applied Biosystems Y-DNA" />

The integration of Southeast Asia into Indian Ocean trading networks around 2,000 years ago also shows some impact, with South Asian genetic signals present within some Filipino ethnic groups like the Sama-Bajau communities.<ref name="Larenab">{{Cite journal |last1=Larena |first1=Maximilian |last2=Sanchez-Quinto |first2=Federico |last3=Sjödin |first3=Per |last4=McKenna |first4=James |last5=Ebeo |first5=Carlo |last6=Reyes |first6=Rebecca |last7=Casel |first7=Ophelia |last8=Huang |first8=Jin-Yuan |last9=Hagada |first9=Kim Pullupul |last10=Guilay |first10=Dennis |last11=Reyes |first11=Jennelyn |date=2021-03-30 |title=Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=118 |issue=13 |article-number=e2026132118 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2026132118 |pmid=33753512 |pmc=8020671 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2021PNAS..11826132L }}</ref>

A recent genetic study found 10-20% of Cebuano ancestry is attributable to [[South Asia]]n (Indian) descent,<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Delfin | first1=Frederick | last2=Min-Shan Ko | first2=Albert | last3=Li | first3=Mingkun | last4=Gunnarsdóttir | first4=Ellen D. | last5=Tabbada | first5=Kristina A. | last6=Salvador | first6=Jazelyn M. | last7=Calacal | first7=Gayvelline C. | last8=Sagum | first8=Minerva S. | last9=Datar | first9=Francisco A. | last10=Padilla | first10=Sabino G. | last11=De Ungria | first11=Maria Corazon A. | last12=Stoneking | first12=Mark | title=Complete mtDNA genomes of Filipino ethnolinguistic groups: A melting pot of recent and ancient lineages in the Asia-Pacific region | journal=European Journal of Human Genetics | date=2014 | volume=22 | issue=2 | pages=228–237 | doi=10.1038/ejhg.2013.122 | pmid=23756438 | pmc=3895641 }}</ref> dated to a time when Precolonial Cebu practiced Hinduism.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Kuizon |first=Jose G. |year=1962 |title=The Sanskrit loan-words in Cebuano-Bisayan language and the Indian elements to Cebuano-Bisayan culture |publisher=University of San Carlos, Cebu |oclc=3061923}}</ref>

As of 2018, there are over 120,000 Indians alone in the Philippines, not including illegal Indian immigrants or Filipinos of Indian descent living in the Philippines.<ref name=indianexpress2806212>{{cite news|title=Punjabi community involved in money lending in Philippines braces for 'crackdown' by new President|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/punjabi-community-money-lending-philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-2806212/|work=The Indian Express|date=18 May 2016}}</ref>

==Filipino people of Indian descent==
===Beauty pageant winners===
* [[Rabiya Mateo|Rabiya Occeña Mateo]], winner of [[Miss Universe Philippines 2020]].<ref name="full name-1">{{cite web|url=https://mb.com.ph/2020/10/30/we-stan-this-queen/|title=We stan this Queen; on 1st paragraph "Rabiya Occeña Sundall Mateo, Miss Universe Philippines 2020, will have a very memorable reign."|date=30 October 2020 |publisher=[[Manila Bulletin]]|access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="full name-2">{{cite web|url=http://www.missnews.com.br/noticias/rabiya-mateo-e-a-miss-universo-filipinas|title=Rabiya Sundall Mateo usou um look vermelho sensacional|publisher=missnews.com.br|access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="full name-3">{{cite web|url=https://www.zeibiz.com/2020/10/watch-miss-manila-interview-video-in-miss-universe-philippines-2020-went-viral/|title=Meanwhile, Rabiya Sundall Mateo from Ilo-ilo City is the crowned winner of Miss Universe Philippines 2020|publisher=zeibiz.com|access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="full name-4">{{cite web|url=https://www.whatalife.ph/rabiya-mateo-iloilo-crowned-miss-universe-philippines-2020/|title=(Her Full name on Major Awards List, Best in Swimsuit: Rabiya Occeña Sundall Mateo, Iloilo City) >> Rabiya Mateo from Iloilo City crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2020|publisher=whatalife.ph|access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="full name-5">{{cite web|url=https://www.juantambayan.me/2020/10/29/mga-kaibigan-kaklase-at-kakilala-ni-miss-universe-philippines-rabiya-mateo-ibinahagi-sa-publiko-ang-pagiging-mapagpakumbaba-ng-dalaga-noon-pa-man/|title=Mga kaibigan kaklase at kakilala ni Miss Universe Philippines; on 1st paragraph "Rabiya Occeña Sundall Mateo, Miss Universe Philippines 2020..."|date=29 October 2020 |publisher=[[Manila Bulletin]]|access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref>
* [[Parul Shah|Parul Quitola Shah]], Miss Grand International 2015 – 2nd Runner-up.
* [[Venus Raj|Maria Venus Bayonito Raj]], winner of [[Binibining Pilipinas 2010]], [[Miss Universe 2010]] Fourth Runner-up.

===Movies & TV===
* [[Addy Raj]], actor
* [[Aljur Abrenica]], actor, dancer, model and singer
* [[Vin Abrenica]], actor, model, singer
* [[Raymond Bagatsing]], actor, model
* [[RK Bagatsing]], actor
* [[Joem Bascon]], actor
* [[Gian Magdangal]], singer and actor
* [[Cassandra Ponti]], Filipina-Indian actress, model and dancer
* [[Sharmaine Arnaiz]], Filipina-Indian actress

===Radio===
* [[Sam Y.G.]], Filipino-Indian radio disc jockey
* [[Mo Twister]], Filipino-Indian DJ, actor, host and podcaster

===Author===
* [[Roshani Chokshi]], Filipino-Indian descent, American author

===Politics===
* [[Ramon Bagatsing]], Filipino-Indian of [[Jat people|Punjabi Jat]] blood, longest serving [[mayor of Manila]], grandfather of [[Raymond Bagatsing]]
* Ranjit Shahani, Filipino-Indian politician congressman and former youngest vice governor in the country of Pangasinan province at the age of 28, from Indian father Dr. Ranjee Gurdassing Shahani, PhD and former senator [[Leticia Ramos-Shahani|Dr. Leticia Ramos-Shahani, PhD]] who is the sister of former president of Philippines [[Fidel Ramos]]

===Sports===
* [[Von Pessumal]], Filipino professional basketball player
* [[Carlo Sharma]], Filipino professional basketball player
* [[Khasim Mirza]], Filipino professional basketball player
* [[Hyram Bagatsing]], Filipino professional basketball player
* [[Sanjay Beach]], American football player

===Army and Revolution===
* [[Juan Cailles]], commander who served during the [[Philippine Revolution]] and [[Philippine–American War]]

==Notes==
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==See also==
{{Portal|India|Philippines}}
{{div col}}
* [[List of India-related topics in the Philippines]]
* [[Hinduism in the Philippines]]
* [[Filipinos in India]]
* [[India–Philippines relations]]
* [[Nanak Darbar Indian Sikh Temple, Iloilo]]
{{col div end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

=== Citations ===
* {{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
|access-date = 3 April 2016
|archive-date = 2 May 2016
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160502072140/http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/contents.htm
}}
* {{Citation
| last = Rye
| first = Ajit Singh
| chapter = The Indian Community in the Philippines
| pages = 707–773
| title = Indian Communities in Southeast Asia
| publisher = Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=TeExjdWUmJYC
| year = 2006
| isbn = 981-230-418-5
| editor-last = A. Mani.
}}
* {{Citation
| last = Sharma
| first = Jagdish Chandra
| title = Hindu Temples in Vietnam
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cmreAAAACAAJ
| publisher = The Offsetters
| isbn = 81-7123-067-9
| year = 1997
| access-date = 28 January 2008}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090619062622/http://www.indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter20.pdf Indian Diaspora in Philippines]
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Indian Filipino - Revision history

Thinkartha at 04:52, 21 January 2026