Madrasi

{{Short description|Ethnic slur and outdated exonym}}

{{distinguish|Madrasa}}

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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}

Madrasi, also spelled as Madrassi, is a term used as a demonym in the past and a regional slur for people from southern India, usually used by those from northern India.{{cite book|last=Reddy, Kovuuri G.|title=Handbook of Journalism and Media: India, Bharat, Hindustan|year=2015|publisher=Vikas Publishing Housel|isbn=9789325982383|oclc=1091767503|pages=255|quote=Madrasi is a reference; it could be also a 'regional' slur}} In earlier usage it was a demonym to refer to the people of Madras Presidency, including the people of present-day Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and parts of Karnataka and Kerala, however this use of the term is now outdated.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cSTEOx_Lw9MC&q=madrasi&pg=PA211|title=Calcutta Mosaic: Essays and Interviews on the Minority Communities of Calcutta|author1=Himadri Banerjee|author2=Nilanjana Gupta|author3=Sipra Mukherjee|date=10 July 2009|publisher=Anthem Press|page=211|isbn=9781843318057|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=31 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531202023/https://books.google.com/books?id=cSTEOx_Lw9MC&q=madrasi&pg=PA211|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last=David Theo Goldberg, Ato Quayson|title=Relocating Postcolonialism|year=2002|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-0-631-20805-1|pages=341|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jam7QTlBqDcC&pg=PA341}}{{cite book|last= Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Gary Needham|title=Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide|year=2006|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-3085-4|pages=296|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K89aw6DEYEYC&pg=PA296}}{{cite book|title=Sri Saibaba s Charters and Sayings -As I Understand|year=2013|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|pages=176|isbn=9781483629674|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kvKkAwAAQBAJ&q=madrasi&pg=PA176|access-date=30 November 2020|archive-date=31 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531202047/https://books.google.com/books?id=kvKkAwAAQBAJ&q=madrasi&pg=PA176|url-status=live}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiEvBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA189|page=189|title=Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2014|author1=Annette Lynch|author2=Mitchell D. Strauss|isbn=9780759121508|quote= Although “Madras” is the name of a place, in this context it is used as an adjective and not as a proper noun.}} In present-day, the exonym Madrasi specifically refers to the people in living in Madras (officially called as Chennai), and the term Chennaite (or Chennaivasi) is the endonym for the people living in the city.