Indo-French people or Indians in France are residents from

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

in France, as well as people of Indian national origin. , there were an estimated 65,000 Indians living in

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, in addition to 300,000 Indians in the French overseas departments and regions of

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and

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History

A majority of France's minority ethnic Indian community originate from Chandernagor of

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and Puducherry, the two former French colonies in India, mostly comprising

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(from Chandernagor),

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, Malayalis as well as

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(from Pondicherry). Later arrivals to mainland France were mostly Gujaratis,

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, Konkanis,

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, a later wave of Keralites from Kerala state in South India (ethnolinguistically similar with those migrated from

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district, Pondicherry) and also twice-migrant Indians from

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(Biharis, Telugus, Marathis, Gujaratis, Punjabis and Tamils),

(Tamils, Malayalis and Telugus),

(mostly Tamils),

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(Tamils, Gujaratis and Biharis),

(Tamils, Telugus and Gujaratis),

(Tamils, Telugus, Punjabis, Gujaratis and Sindhis) and

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(mostly Gujaratis).

Notable people

* 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 Thierry Moutoussamy (, ; born 23 December 1972), better known as Lord Kossity (), is a French musician. His family is originally from Martinique but he was born in Paris, France and moved back to the French West Indies with his family when he was ...

* 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

References

External links

Indians in France

Indian Diaspora in Europe (France pages 13–16)
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Ethnic groups in France Asian diaspora in France Immigration to France by country of origin

History

Notable people

See also

References

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