Indians are considered caucasian (my husband is from India) but their actual skin color can be a variety of shades. My husband is about as dark as Dennis Haysbert (President David Palmer on 24 and also on those Allstate commercials)http://tinyurl.com/3yvmrm
I never have figured out that whole color-ethnicity quota thing myself. I’m with MLK on the ‘judge someone on who they are, not what they look like’ philosophy.
But what even darker (Asian) Indians have going for themselves over native Blacks is:
They act white
They talk white
They have Caucasian facial features
They have white attitude
Indians have a reputation for being intelligent
Even most country bumpkins know this by now and know Indians are not Blacks with straight hair. In fact many small towns have Hindu Indian doctors