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Many of the Indian associations are under the umbrella group of the Co-ordination Committee of Indian Associations (CCIA), which coordinates events for the Indian community such as the Indian Republic Day. [2] The CCIA also helped to provide relief for Indian workers in tragedies such as the Bahrain boat disaster, which killed 17 Indians. [2]
Hindu grave in the columbarium of Père Lachaise. Indo-French people or Indians in France are residents from India in France, as well as people of Indian national origin. As of 2000, there were an estimated 65,000 Indians living in metropolitan France, in addition to 300,000 Indians in the French overseas departments and regions of Guadeloupe, Réunion, Martinique and French Guiana.
There are also smaller numbers of Telugu speaking communities while a minority are descended from Indian traders who migrated to South Africa at around the same time, many from Gujarat. The city of Durban has the highest number of Asians in sub-Saharan Africa, and the Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi worked as a lawyer in the country ...
The large populations of Indians within Africa could be the cause of the political support Africa is seeing from India now. The previous Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, recognized Africa as the growth pole of the world in 2011. [13] Since this acknowledgement, India has shown their faith in Africa through the expansion of trade.
The Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa consists of approximately 3 million people of Indian origin. Some of this diaspora in Southeast Africa arrived in the 19th century from British India as indentured labourers, many of them to work on the Kenya–Uganda railway. Others had arrived earlier by sea as traders.
About 302,000 Tamils live in France, including 125,000 in Metropolitan France. [5] The first Tamils to arrive in France came from Pondichéry when it was still a French colony. [ 22 ] However, a majority of Parisian Tamils are of Sri Lankan origin who fled the country and came to France as refugees in the 1980s, escaping the violent civil conflict.
France sent southern Indians to its colonies in the Caribbean as indentured laborers, hence there are also many residents of Indian descent in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana, mostly of southern Indian descent. Many Indo-Caribbean people have migrated to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, and France, and few ...
Indians who traded with Bahrain and settled before the age of oil (formerly known as the Hunood or Banyan, Arabic: البونيان), of mostly Hindu faith. [ 13 ] Non-nationals make up more than half of the population of Bahrain, with immigrants making up about 52.6% of the overall population. [ 16 ]