East Indian vs Indic

East Indian

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the people, products, or culture of Southeast Asia, particularly the Malay Archipelago, Sri Lanka, or India. 

noun
  • A native or inhabitant of the Malay Archipelago, Sri Lanka, or India. 

Indic

adj
  • Pertaining to India or its people, culture and languages; Indian. 

  • Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants. 

  • Relating to the Brahmic scripts. 

name
  • A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi. 

How often have the words East Indian and Indic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )