Why do so many people think Indians aren't Caucasian?

Because most people associate the word 'Caucasian' with light skin. Actually it refers to the people that live(d) on or near the Caucasus Mountains. There are only 4(?) races, Asian, Caucasian, Black, and I think Mongloid. Indians fall under the Caucasian race. They are only thought not to be because they have dark brown skin.

Actually just Northern Indian are. Northern Indians are more closely related towards European then towards the Indian of the South.

@ Jolly. Asians and Mongoloid are the same thing.

Actually Caucasian world is larger than anyone thinks.It includes the

richest lands on earth,the most industrialized regions,largest oil fields,

oldest civilizations,most strategic gulfs,straits and seas,and it includes the

so-called "Heartland" of earth planet.The only "little"problem is we

discriminate inside ourselves,when mongoloids and N*groids act as a whole!

I hope this won't result to lose the "big race" to mongoloids(Asians),but

situation seems ominous.

Scientists in this day and age believe that the whole notion of race is quackery and was made up to make a race appear superior to others. Genetically humans are 99.9% alike. It is that .1% that decides what our physical characteristics are going to be, and it is that .1% that has divided us humans for centuries.

nicely East Indians are Asian. i think of community individuals are Asians who initially migrated into the Americas around the Bering Strait for the duration of the Ice Age. as quickly as I studied skulls of countless races for my forensic anthropology classification, the community American and Asian skulls regarded strikingly comparable.

You are obviously an Indian with an inferiority complex. Indians worship whites, so its no surprised that you wants to be considered white. You are like most Indians.

yes they are brown Caucasians

wikipedia as a reference is a joke.

Because they don't come from the caucasus mountains