Who classifies as Desi?

[Karachi]

Who classifies as "Desi"? Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, who else??

Are Nepali people Desi? Bhutani people? Kashmiri people???

[Sarbani]

All Indo-Aryans and Dravidians (except the Brahui) are Desi. Nepalis are Desi, Bhutanis aren't. I don't think Kashmiris are Desi, not sure about them.

[Karachi]

From wikepedia:

Desi [d̪eːsi] is a Sanskrit term for the people, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent or South Asia and, increasingly, for their diaspora.[1] Desi nations include India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Maldives.[2]


Nepal

Nepali term desi usually refers to Indian people. Not to be confused with mades(h)i (मधेसी, मधेशी) which refer to people from the Terai (Madhesh) region of Nepal who are and culturally like people

Etymology

The ethnonym belongs in the endonymic category (i.e. it is a self-appellation). Desi is an Indo-Aryan term that originates from the Sanskrit word (Sanskrit: देश) deśha- ("region, province, country"). Indo-aryan Sanskrit is the root of more than 25 South Asian languages and the first known usage of the Sanskrit root is found in the Natya Shastra (~200 BC), where it defines the regional varieties of folk performing arts, as opposed to the classical, pan-Indian margi. Thus, (Sanskrit: स्वदेश) swadeś refers to one's own country or homeland, while (Sanskrit: परदेश) paradeś refers to another's country or a foreign land.
History

The word 'desi' evolved from the Sanskrit term 'desha', meaning country. With time its usage shifted more towards referring to people, cultures, and products of a specific region .
Desi contrasts with the Hindustani language word vilāyati, which loosely translates as 'British' (vilāyat, an Arabic origin word meaning 'state', signifies Britain). Accordingly, people from the subcontinent living in 'vilāyat' called themselves desis. The desi/vilāyati pair of antonyms is widely used in Hindustani.[3]
After the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the United States dramatically increased immigration from the Subcontinent. As increasing number of students from the subcontinent arrived in the US and UK, their countries of origin were colloquially referred to as deś. For example, all things Indian including Indian expatriates were referred to as "desi".
Some second or third generation immigrants do not think of themselves as belonging to a particular nation, sub-culture, or caste, but as just plain South Asians or desis,[citation needed] especially as intermarriage between different South Asian diaspora communities increases.

[kanishka]

Pashtuns and Balochis are not Desi becuase they speak Iranic languages not Indo-Aryan.

Kashmiris are dardic people. I'll say all dardic people are desi since some linguists put Dards under Indo-Aryan

Nuristanis are not Desi,

Brahuis are a special case, they are dravidian should be desi but aren't due to being Balochis....