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.
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 with those migrated from Karaikal district, Pondicherry) and also twice-migrant Indians from Mauritius (Biharis, Telugus, Marathis, Gujaratis, Punjabis 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
See also
- Asian diasporas in France
- Réunionnais of Indian origin
- Immigration to France
- Indian diaspora
- Indians in Guadeloupe
- Indo-Martiniquais
- Indians in French Guiana
- Tamils in France
- France–India relations
- Romani people in France
- French people in India
References
External links
- Indians in France
- Indian Diaspora in Europe (France pages 13–16)
