Dougla people (plural Douglas) are Caribbean people who are of mixed African and Indian descent. The word Dougla (also Dugla or Dogla) is used throughout the Dutch and English-speaking Caribbean. Definition The word Dougla originated from doogala (), which is a Caribbean Hindustani word that literally means "two-necks" and may mean "many", "much" or "a mix". In the West Indies, the word is used only for mixed race Afro-Indians. The word has its etymological roots in Hindi, where "do" means "two" and "gala" means "throat," potentially referring to people who could speak Indian and African languages. The 2012 Guyana census identified 29.25% of the population as Afro-Guyanese, 39.83% as Indo-Guyanese, and 19.88% as "mixed," recognized as mostly representing the offspring of the former two groups. In the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Martinique), mixed Afro-Indian people used to be called Batazendyen or Chapé-Kouli. History There are sporadic records of Indo-Euro interracial relationships, both consensual and nonconsensual, before any ethnic mixing of the African and Indian variety. Other Indo-based types of mixed heritage (Indo-Chinese (Chindians), Indo-Latino/Hispanic (Tegli), Indo-English (Anglo-Indians), Indo-Portuguese (Luso-Indians), Indo-Irish (Irish Indians), Indo-Scottish (Scottish-Indians), Indo-Dutch, Indo-Arabs and Indo-Amerindian) tended to identify as one of the older, unmixed ethnic strains on the island: Afro, Indo, Amerindian or Euro or passing as one of them. In Trinidad culture In 1961, the calypsonian musician Mighty Dougla (born Cletus Ali) described the predicament of Douglas: Notable Douglas Cletus Ali, Trinidadian musician, better known as Mighty Dougla Tatyana Ali, Indo-Trinidadian/Afro-Panamanian American actress Esther Anderson, actress (United Kingdom; born in Jamaica) Johnson Beharry, Grenadian British soldier in the British Army Melissa Bell, Jamaican British singer and mother of Alexandra Burke Foxy Brown, rapper (United States; Trinidadian and Tobagonian background) Alexandra Burke, British Jamaican singer and daughter of Melissa Bell Super Cat, Jamaican deejay Sabrina Colie, actress (United States; born in Jamaica) Mervyn Dymally, Trinidadian American politician Special Ed, rapper (United States; Jamaican background) Marlene Malahoo Forte, politician (Jamaica) Amy Ashwood Garvey, activist (Jamaica) Masaba Gupta, actress and fashion designer (Antiguan and Indian) Lisa Hanna, Miss World 1993, MP Saint Ann South Eastern Kamala Harris, Vice-President of the United States (Jamaican and South Indian) Maya Harris, lawyer and writer (Jamaican and South Indian) Lester Holt, U.S. news anchor and journalist Kenny J, calysonian Diana King, singer (United States; born in Jamaica) Jeffery Kissoon, actor Sonnet L'Abbé, Guyanese Canadian poet Sir Trevor McDonald, Trinidadian British news anchor and