Hmmmm......from wiki .... I do think you may be wrong and are confusing a general term such as Anglo Saxon.
Desi or Deshi is a self-referential term used by South Asian people.
Desi may also refer to:
Desi (raga), a raga (also known as Deshi) in Indian classical music
Desi daru, an Indian alcoholic beverage
Desi ghee, a term used to differentiate between country-made ghee and vegetable ghee
.desi, an internet top-level domain
Desi [d?e?si] are the people, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora, derived from Ancient Sanskrit ??? (desá), meaning Land or Country.As "desi" is a loose term, countries that are considered "desi" are subjective; however, it is often accepted that India, Pakistan, Bangladesh are Desi countries.
Etymology
The ethnonym belongs in the endonymic category (i.e., it is a self-appellation). Desi is borrowed from Hindi-Urdu desi 'national', ultimately from Sanskrit desiya, derived from desa (???) 'region, province, country'. The first known usage of the Sanskrit word is found in the Natya Shastra (~200 BCE), where it defines the regional varieties of folk performing arts, as opposed to the classical, pan-Indian margi. Thus, svadesa (Sanskrit: ??????) refers to one's own country or homeland, while paradesa (Sanskrit: ?????) refers to another's country or a foreign land. |
