Indian women are not Asian in US terms but they are in UK terms. I seem to
recall that in US terminology Asian refers to far eastern peoples, e.g. Chinese,
Japanese, am I right?  In the UK Asian usually refers to people from the Indian
sub-continent.

Racially Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are very similar.  Indeed, many
Pakistanis born before 1947 will have migrated to Pakistan at the time of the
Partition, Bengalis at that time going to Bangladesh (was East Pakistan).  the
Partition was along religious lines, not racial ones.

Magda Sachs
The Breastfeeding Network (UK)