Talk:Malaysian Indian
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[edit] Page Name
- I know this may be a lame debate, but should this page be called Indian Malaysian or Malaysian Indian. I think Malaysian Indian would be more apopriate because it implies that we are of Malaysian citizenship but we are Indians. --Pavithran 09:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- I agree, Malaysian Indian would be the correct form. Wiki Raja 09:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I've moved the article from Indian Malaysian to Malaysian Indian as agreed =).--Pavithran 07:38, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Deragotary names
The last paragraph on deragotary name of Indian is redundant. Shall we delete it from this article ? Secondly, there is no proper references based any scientific/antrophologic/archeological evidences here. The factual correctness need to be considered. Please provide more references to the sources.
Derogatory terms are common in all countries and need not to be glorified in the community's history. Very redundant indeed. i disagree with above statement.some people think the word "keling" orginated from "clinging" sound made by chains of indian prisoners or railway labourers who are making the railway tracks....but remember that the word keling was already in use in sejarah melayu written in 16th century.And it was not used in derogatory terms,instead malays claim proudly thier sultans are descendents of indian rajahs;KALINGA predates tamil cholas,its influence over all over south east asia is preety obvious. i can provide one of my source http://www.visvacomplex.com/Keling_English_Version.html If today indians find the word "keling" offensive it is because of thier current state,even the word indian can be found offensive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sureshnaidu (talk • contribs) 16:23, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
malaysian indian or malaysian tamil?if all the information on this page is about tamils...then just change the name to malaysian tamil instead.the information written does not reflect the title of the page.they are other languages spoken in malaysia by malaysian indian besides tamil(major language)malayalam and telugu for instance.i agree ,why not change the page title so that it won't deceive the public.besides the so called historical tamil influence were exaggrated at cost of influence of other indian cultures
the name "keling" may found offensive to you now more because the status of indians in malaysia today.As far as the word keling is concerned,sejarah melayu is a prove indians were held in high regard in the past.It is also a proof that kingdom of kalinga held strong influence over malay peninsular,rather then tamils as believed today.It is true the cholas destroyed most of the kingdoms in south east asia proving thier naval and military power,but prior to that,the KALINGAS have cultural domination over this region,the prove is,the burmese,thais,cambodians,malays(majapahit,sailendra,sri vijaya)are all using PALI inscription rather then tamil.in addition to that most of this kingdoms are buddhist,and kalinga is buddhist stronghold.
[edit] Pattani
Since that the province of Pattani is a Malay Muslim dominated province in southern Thailand, the word "Pattani" actually sounds similar to the term "Petani" in Malay meaning "farmer". It's possible since that Pattani still has many farmers. Therefore, I don't think it's related to the Tamil term "pea...". --211.24.155.43 12:58, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for the input. You could be right. Amazing how there are Malay and Tamil words which are interchangeable in meaning, and some that are interchangeable in spelling. Regards. Wiki Raja 22:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Good job on the name change. I too thought it kind of odd why it was called "Indian Malaysian". Wiki Raja 07:40, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] To recent anons and others
Please post commentaries and assumptions on talk page instead of the main page. Thank you. Wiki Raja 04:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] langauges
Malaysian Indians largely speak Tamil.Please we cannot be adding every indian unless there is a significant population.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 05:34, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
From what I can see, I agree. The addition of the unlikely used language Hindi, made it appear that all the actual minority languages should be added. But, I agree lets leave it at Tamil and that should solve the problem. Thanks--Friedricer (talk) 14:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
the problem is in malaysia whenever one says indian,they are registed as tamil.this gives false low reading of telugus population who resides in large numbers in estates like tamils.actual telugu speaking population is triple the number of actual statastics —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sureshnaidu (talk • contribs) 20:44, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
