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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]
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. [ 2 ] Non-nationals make up more than half of the population of Bahrain, with immigrants making up about 52.6% of the overall population. [ 5 ]
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.
In 2008, approximately 290,000 Indian nationals lived in Bahrain, making them the single largest expatriate community in the country, the majority of which hail from the south Indian state of Kerala. [ 288 ] [ 289 ] Bahrain is the fourth most densely populated sovereign state in the world with a population density of 1,646 people per km 2 in ...
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 ...
Now there are more than 250,000 Tamils spread over in many cities, the concentration being in Natal and Durban. [22] In South Africa the Tamil Language can be taken in many schools as a Second Additional Language, It is recognised as a level 4 subject and carries points for entrance into university.
Indian people or Indians are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of India. In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various ethnic groups. According to United Nations forecasts, India overtook China as the world's most populous country by the end of April 2023, containing 17.50 percent of the global population.