Well, we can settle this once and for all by examining his nose
“They may be able to identify the racial group to which the person belongs by examining the width and height of the nose. Facial or head hair, when found with the skeleton, can also help determine race. Caucasian nose holes are triangular, Negroid’s square, and Mongoloid’s diamond-shaped. Negroid femur bones are also straighter than other racial groups.”
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/TOCONNOR/425/425lect17.htm
Well East Indians have caucasian facial features but most have dark skin, so while caucasian would technically be accurate, they're not "white" people by any literal definition of the word.
It's true alot of East Indian girls look very caucasian, basically seem like white girls with a dark tan. Here's the sexy Huma Naeem, a Jindal supporter:
Huma Naeem
I agree it's kind of silly to classify them as "Asian" when they have virtually nothing in common with people from Japan, China, Korea, etc.
Nevertheless, that IS how governments classify people descended from the India subcontinent... "East Asian". They are Indo-European by ethnicity but they not classified as "Caucasian" in the census.