Black People of India

Thèse are the earliest pictures I hàve of Black peòple in India 🇮🇳 

I collected them as an anthropology student at UCLA.  Since reading Chancellor Williams in 1972 I have been fascinated by the Blaçk people of India.  Both the historians Chancellor Williams and Cheikh Anta Diop wrote about them.  Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X wrote spoke about them.  I have visited them on three occasions.  They are Black and they see themselves as Black.  They are not "dark-skinned Indians" as some s.tûpidly suggest.  Why is this so hàrd for so many of us to understand?  They even have an organization called the Dalit Panthers, named after the Black Pànther Pàrty is the US.  Now two of our greatest scholars--Chancellor Williams and Cheikh Anta Diop--wrote about them.  Two of our greatest leaders--Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X--spoke about them.  I have visited them, not once but three times.  What is it about them you know that we don't and how could any thinking person sùggest that they are somehow not Blaçk?

Credit: Runoko Rashidi