Editing Belize (section)

====East Indians====
{{Main|Indo-Belizeans}}
'''Indo-Belizeans''', also known as '''East Indian Belizeans''', are citizens of Belize of [[Indian people|Indian]] ancestry. The community made up 3.9% of the population of Belize in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/belize/|title=The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency|website=www.cia.gov|date=11 April 2023|access-date=24 January 2021|archive-date=9 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109132306/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/belize/|url-status=live}}</ref> and are a bit over 2% presently. They are part of the wider [[Indo-Caribbean]] community, which itself is a part of the global [[Indian diaspora]].

East Indians began arriving in Belize after the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], with the first ship with Indians arriving in 1858 as part of the [[Indian indenture system]] set up by the British government after slavery was abolished.<ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=https://chabilmarvillas.com/east-indians-of-belize.html | title=The East Indians of Belize – Everything You Need to Know | date=11 December 2021 | access-date=6 May 2024 | archive-date=30 November 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130130657/https://chabilmarvillas.com/east-indians-of-belize.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Initially coming in as indentured, many of them stayed on to work the sugar plantations and were joined by other Indian immigrants. Indians have spread out over many villages and towns primarily in the Corozal and Toledo districts and live in reasonably compact rural communities. While there are few descendants of the original Indian indentured immigrants of full Indian descent, many of their descendants intermarried with other ethnic groups in Belize, notably the [[Belizean Creole people|Creoles]] and [[Hispanic and Latin American Belizean|Mestizos]]. However, they are still identifiable through their physiognomy and are known as 'Hindus' or 'East Indians'.<ref name="auto"/> This set of Indians were almost entirely composed of people from the [[Bhojpuri region|Bhojpur]] region, [[Awadh]] region, and other places in the [[Hindi Belt|Hindustani Belt]] in [[North India]]. A minority of indentured labourers were from [[South India]] and other regions throughout [[South Asia]]. Most Indians in urban areas are entrepreneurs and are invested in the import and retail industry.