DBHC: American Indians

With a PoD of 1492, have a significant portion of an American country (at least 20%) be of East Indian descent. Bonus points if you can have them be the majority, and extra bonus points the later the PoD.

One of the most likely ways for this to happen I think would be for the Portuguese to get a significant presence in India and become a major exporter of slaves, instead of exporting from Africa. I don't know how the West African slave trade would be discouraged, though. Perhaps an extremely bloody slave revolt, or the rise of a strong West-African empire?

OOC: East Indians make up the majority of the population of Guyana and a significant minority in Trinidad and Tobago. They were imported as indentured servants after the abolition of the slave trade.
 
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