The 1910 U.S. Census Bureau classified South Asian immigrants under the racial category "Hindu," even though it acknowledged that pure-blood Hindus were ethnically Caucasian, and most people so classified were actually Sikhs.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by peer-reviewed academic source (Hochschild, Studies in American Political Development) plus independent corroboration from NPR, community history resources, and educational materials on Sikh American history.
Sources
- Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930 (jlhochschild.scholars.harvard.edu)
- https://www.communitysolutions.com/resources/short-history-race-question-decennial-census (communitysolutions.com)
- https://www.npr.org/2021/09/30/1037352177/2020-census-results-by-race-some-other-latino-ethnicity-hispanic (npr.org)
- https://aaved.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Slidedeck-11th-Grade-Ghadar-Party.pdf (aaved.org)