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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Māori Indians
| total = '''2,610''' as of 2006 Census.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pio |first1=Edwina |title=Caste away? : unfolding the Māori Indian |date=2010 |publisher=Office of Ethnic Affairs |location=[Wellington, N.Z.] |isbn=978-0478294989}}</ref>
Many more Māori of partial Indian descent
| popplace =
| langs = [[English language|English]], [[Māori language|Māori]], [[Hindi language|Hindi]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
| related = {{flatlist|
* [[Dougla]]
* [[Eurasian (mixed ancestry)|Eurasians]]
* [[Māori people]]
* [[Indian New Zealanders]]
* [[Punjabi Mexican Americans]]
}}
}}

'''Māori Indians''' (or '''Indo-Māori''') are an ethnic group in [[New Zealand]] of people with mixed [[Māori people|Māori]] and [[Indian New Zealanders|Indian]] ancestry.

== History ==
The earliest record of a mixed Indo-Māori union is said to have occurred in 1810, when an Indian man from [[Bengal]] abandoned a shipping vessel to marry a Māori woman. There is also record of an Indian man living with his Māori wife in the [[Bay of Islands]] in 1815; another took up residence on [[Stewart Island]] after 1814.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Taonga |first1=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu |title=2. – Indians – Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/indians/page-2 |website=teara.govt.nz |language=en}}</ref>

Possibly the earliest non-Māori settlers of the [[Otago]] region of [[South Island]] were three Indian [[lascars]] who deserted ship to live among the Māori in 1813.<ref name=antipodes>{{cite book |last1=Bandyopadhyay |first1=Sekhar |last2=Buckingham |first2=Jane |title=Indians and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries and Circulation |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199483624 |ref=Antipodes |language=en}}</ref> There, they assisted the [[Ngāi Tahu]] by passing on new skills and technologies, including how to attack colonial European vessels in the rain when their guns could not be fired.<ref name="antipodes" /> They integrated into Māori culture completely, participating in [[Tā moko]] and taking on Māori names.

The late 1800s and early 1900s saw the first wave of migration of Indian men and later women arriving to the country. A number of them came directly to New Zealand but some came via Fiji and others via other British colonies such as Burma. In the earliest group of Indian pioneer men were those who came to New Zealand as teenagers. These young men from [[Punjab]] and [[Gujarat]] were generally looked after by the Māori community, and tended to have unions with Māori women.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mayhew |first1=W. R. |title=Tuapeka: The Land and Its People |date=1977 |publisher=Capper Press |location=Clutha District, New Zealand}}</ref> Children of these unions were often cast out by the wider Indian community. However, such children continued to be welcomed into the Māori community.

Of the 3,151 Indians recorded on the 1951 census of New Zealand - 253 were of Māori Indian origin.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Statistics |first1=New Zealand Dept of |title=Population census, 1956 |date=1959 |publisher=R. E. Owen, Govt. printer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R05BAQAAIAAJ&q=%22indo-maori%22 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|81}} In 10 years, by the 1961 census, there were just slightly more Indians in New Zealand, while the number of Māori Indians had risen dramatically to 454.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shryock |first1=Henry S. |last2=Siegel |first2=Jacob S. |last3=Larmon |first3=Elizabeth A. |title=The methods and materials of demography |date=1980 |publisher=Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Oo6AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Maori-Indian%22&pg=PA255 |language=en}}</ref>

In [[Te Arawa]] the most well-known [[Whānau|whanau]] of Indo-Māori descent are the Bhana whanau{{Citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=December 2018}} from [[Ngāti Whakaue|Ngati Whakaue]].

=== 21st century ===
Responses to the [[2001 New Zealand census]] indicated that 1.5% of Indian women and 2% of Indian men in New Zealand were in inter-ethnic unions with a Māori partner.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Callister |first1=Paul |last2=Didham |first2=Robert |last3=Potter |first3=Deborah |url=http://m.stats.govt.nz/~/media/Statistics/browse-categories/population/census-counts/review-measurement-ethnicity/ethnic-intermarriage-in-nz.pdf |title=Ethnic intermarriage in New Zealand |journal=Statistics New Zealand |date=September 2005 |access-date=25 November 2018}}</ref>{{rp|49}} About 18% of children of these unions can converse in the [[Māori language]], while less than 10% could speak an [[Languages of India|Indian language]].

The first [[hui (Māori assembly)]] for people of mixed Māori and Indian descent was held in 2012 in [[Rotorua]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Hui links Indo-Māori culture |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11079144 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |language=en-NZ |date=22 October 2012}}</ref> A second assembly was held in 2014, with over 200 mixed Māori Indians in attendance.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kinita |first1=Dana |title=Te Māori: Māori Indians to gather at hui |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503437&objectid=11199992 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |language=en-NZ |date=10 February 2014}}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Māori}}
{{New Zealand topics}}
{{NRI-PIO}}
{{Punjabi diaspora}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Māori Indians}}
[[Category:Demographics of New Zealand]]
[[Category:Māori]]
[[Category:Indian diaspora in New Zealand]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in New Zealand]]
[[Category:New Zealand people of Indian descent]]

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