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]
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
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- Paris Viswanathan
- Sujata Bajaj
- Nalini Anantharaman
- Nalini Balbir
- Henri Bangou
- Jacques Bangou
- Chetan Eknath Chitnis
- Amar Bose
- Vanu Bose
- Cynthia Brown
- Jayasri Burman
- Maya Burman
- Sakti Burman
- Anju Chaudhuri
- Partha Pratim Majumder
- Jeanne Dupleix
- Ivan Grésèque
- Hidayat Inayat Khan
- Indila
- Romuald Karmakar
- Aurore Kichenin
- Lord Kossity
- Subrata K. Mitra
- Prithwindra Mukherjee
- Rudgy Pajany
- Ashley Radjarame
- Vasant Rai
- S. H. Raza
- Vijay Singh
- Kiran Vyas
- Falguni Vyas
- Shumona Sinha
- Samuel Moutoussamy
- J. R. D. Tata
- Kévin Théophile-Catherine
- Khal Torabully
- Vikash Dhorasoo
- Wesley Saïd
- Severus of Vienne
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
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