Hate to be pedantic, but the author of that article does not know what she is talking about-Indians are Caucasian, and Chinese and other “Oriental” people are Asians-neither are “people of color” in the common use of the word-it would have made more sense for her to say he has appointed people from different ethnic groups...
indians, Lil black Sambo, are black and Chinese are yellow. therefore, compared to colorless europeans, they are people of color
Being pedantic is ok but being wrong is not
The “common use of the word” “people of color” is basically any person not of pure European descent. It doesn’t make much logical sense, for example, are “Latinos” are considered people of color, but there are plenty of people who are plenty of people of unmixed Spanish background in Latin America, but when they get here, they are apparently, people of color, unless of course they happen to actually have a black grandmother, but also kill a black kid in self-defense, in which case they are then “white Hispanics”.
Various attempts have been made, under the British Raj and since, to classify the population of India according to a racial typology. After the independence, in pursuance of the government’s policy to discourage distinctions between communities based on race, the 1951 Census of India did away with racial classifications. The national Census of independent India does not recognize any racial groups in India.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_definitions_of_races_in_India
My grandmother was a woman of “off-color.” She could swear like a sailor.
Indians are a multitude of various racial and ethnic groups.
The vast majority are racially not ‘Caucasian’.
You think of the Aryans who migrated to India millenia ago.
They were the ruling caste... ruling over a majority of dark native South Asians.
Over time the Aryans mixed with natives despite the caste system.
There are a number of light skinned Indians from the upper castes... indeed light(ening) the skin is seen as a social marker in India.
The most genuinely Aryan population in India is outside the Hindu caste system: the Zoroastrian Parsis who fled Iran during the Muslim-Arab onslaught.
However also this group has mixed with native Gujaratis (mostly Parsi men with Gujarati women) which has made the racially more akin to the locals.
The author must have an ulterior motive to label them as "colored". If the intent was literal, all 3 are lighter complexioned than quite a few southern Europeans.