How often do you see white people in India?

mushyosh

In your experience, how often have you crossed paths with another foreign traveller?

And out of that, how often have you ended up with a travel buddy, or something along those lines?

seventies'hippy

I saw one or two white looking people at Anjuna flea market, but non at all during Amanath Yatri,
Basically though you'll meet white people everywhere, though the more out of the way places the fewer there'll be.
But what do you really mean, ? Do you want to meet them or not meet them?
Are we talking a language issue or a colour thing,
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seventies'hippy

Sorry just re-read your post, I guess you mean about meeting up with someone and travelling together for a while. in that case if you're in the well frequented places you'll meet people all the time who now and again will be travelling in the same direction as you and it should be quite enjoyable to do that for a few days then move on or carry on.
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wonderwomanusa

Depends on where you are.

If you're in the less-travelled cities (Lucknow, Bhopal, Hyderabad) or not staying at places listed in the guidebooks, you might not see any other travellers.

If "hooking up with someone" is your goal, you have to go where the other travellers hang out.

In a 12-week visit last fall, I met other travellers in Delhi, Bharatpur, Calcutta, Puri and Mamalipuram. But I wasn't looking for them -- was having a perfectly nice time on my own. I met lots of pleasant Indian folks.

Oh, by the way, some of our fellow travellers are of varying shades of color -- they are not all white.

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LuAnnandJawahar

If it's westerners you are l;ooking to meet, just follow the Lonley Planet trail, i.e. hotels/restaurants listed in the Lonely Planet

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avind

Actually, you will be surprised to see a good number of westerners in cities like Bangalore, Noida, Gurgaon, Pune, Mumbai, Chochin etc. The recent surge in back office work (let us not get into that debate) has helped this inflow.

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Jeroen

I'm surprised at how few foreigners there seem to be here- though I shouldn't be seeing the count is 1bln Indians to half a million foreign tourists (though this may include non-resident Indians too?).
The place you stay determines how many peoplefrom the west you see - unforunately if you want to meet and hook up with travellers you're doomed to visiting the cheapest fleapit hotels. On my trip I've grouped up with several people for a few days - one met on a Backwaters ferry, one in the Goa-Hampi train (easy -8 daytime hours to chat with people, and all foreigners on that train are headed on to Hampi), one on the Rathambore tiger park canter, etc.
It's funny - in places like Delhi's Paharganj and central Mumbai the foreigners just pass you by oin thge street without a glance, but in small places if you see a foreigner, I can't resist the urge to say hello.

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bijapuri

well, a goiod chunk of this site is Indian, for starters, and most Indians are classified as "white" by those who still keep track of that stuff. I am sure you mean "Westerners," But that also includes a lot of Non-Resident-Indians. Hmmmm . . . . How about celling them "people whose parents think they're white" but then there's Blacks . . .
ah, forget about it!

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fuzmiq

first of all what is this about that indians are "white?" whom have you been talking to lately. i don't think so. asian for sure....they can get some affirmative action too, you know what i'm saying.

Merchant

My experience of foreign travelers in India is that they are frightfully boring. So I'm the guy who seems rude and standoffish(apologies to anyone here I may have unknowingly offended).

albaruni

I think bijapuri meanscaucasian (the official US classification of indians from india is caucasian...they have a subcat called WHITE caucasian, which was a whole other can of worms) ..europe does not have a white/black classification officialy..

volga_volga

I'm with you, Merchant. And I hate backpackers!

Merchant

Volga, maybe you and I will make knowing eye contact amid a throng of sunburned, overweight tourists with fanny packs, desperately trying to prevent a Delhi tout from flinging shit on their shoes--was the IndiaMike Secret Sign ever decided?

volga_volga

great, Merchant! see you in India.

I'm sure you'll recognised THAT look in my eyes

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