Indians in France
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Indo-French people or Indians in France are residents from India in France, as well as people of Indian national origin. According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, there are an estimated 119,000 overseas Indians living in metropolitan France, in addition to 367,379 in the French overseas departments and regions of Guadeloupe, Réunion, Martinique and French Guiana.[1]
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 119,000 (Metropolitan France)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Paris, Overseas France, French Alps | |
| Languages | |
| Bengali, English, Mauritian Creole, Gujarati, French, Hindi, Urdu, Seychellois Creole, Konkani, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, Réunion Creole, Sindhi, Antillean Creole, Marathi, Telugu, Guianese Creole, Malagasy and several other Indian languages | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly: Hinduism Minority: Sikhism, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Ravidassia | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin, Indians in Germany, Indians in Switzerland, Indians in Italy, British Indians, South Asians in Ireland |
History
A majority of France's minority ethnic Indian community originate from Chandernagor of West Bengal and Puducherry, the two former French colonies in India, mostly comprising Bengalis (from Chandernagor), Tamils, Malayalis as well as Telugus (from Pondicherry).
Later arrivals to mainland France were mostly Gujaratis, Sindhis, Konkanis, Punjabis, a later wave of Keralites from Kerala state in South India (ethnolinguistically similar to those migrated from Karaikal district, Pondicherry) and also twice-migrant Indians from Mauritius (Biharis, Telugus, Marathis and Tamils), French Guiana (Tamils, Malayalis and Telugus), Guadeloupe (mostly Tamils), Seychelles (Tamils, Gujaratis and Biharis), Réunion (Tamils, Telugus and Gujaratis), Martinique (Tamils, Telugus, Punjabis, Gujaratis and Sindhis) and Madagascar (mostly Gujaratis).
Notable people
- Severus of Vienne
- Jeanne Dupleix
- J. R. D. Tata
- Hidayat Inayat Khan
- S. H. Raza
- Sakti Burman
- Prithwindra Mukherjee
- Paris Viswanathan
- Vasant Rai
- Anju Chaudhuri
- Kiran Vyas
- Subrata K. Mitra
- Vijay Singh
- Ivan Grésèque
- Partha Pratim Majumder
- Nalini Balbir
- Sujata Bajaj
- Chetan Eknath Chitnis
- Romuald Karmakar
- Maya Burman
- Shumona Sinha
- Vikash Dhorasoo
- Cynthia Brown
- Nalini Anantharaman
- Indila
- Aurore Kichenin
- Ashley Radjarame
