Guest guest Posted April 26, 2001 Report Share Posted April 26, 2001 <<How about Africans in India? Would they be called firagis? Most probably, the population calls them 'kaliya'.>> Wouldn't they be called habshis? Allen Thrasher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2001 Report Share Posted April 27, 2001 INDOLOGY, "Allen W Thrasher" <athr@l...> wrote: > <<How about Africans in India? Would they be called firagis? Most > probably, > the population calls them 'kaliya'.>> > > Wouldn't they be called habshis? > > Allen Thrasher In Tamil novels and magazines till a few decades back, I have seen the term 'kaappiri' for black Africans. This is derived from 'Kafir' which the Southern African whites used to call blacks. Probably this term was introduced to Tamil from early Tamil settlers in SA in the latter part of 19th century Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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