in previous decades, indian americans were also variously classified as white american, the "hindu race", and "other". even today, where individual indian americans do not racially self-identify, and instead report muslim, jewish, and zoroastrian as their "race" in the "some other race" section without noting their country of origin, they are automatically tallied as white. this may result in the counting of persons such as indian muslims, indian jews, and indian zoroastrians as white, if they solely report their religious heritage without their national origin.