Indians in France
Indo-French people or Indians in France are expatriate 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 Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 190,000 (2010s)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Paris, Overseas France, French Alps | |
| Languages | |
| Bengali,
English , French, Gujarati ,Hindi , Konkani , Malayalam , Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and other Indian languages, | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Hinduism Minority Sikhism, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin, Tamil, Desi |
Hindu grave in the columbarium of Père Lachaise
History
A majority of the Indian community hails from Puducherry and Chandannagar, the former French colonies in India. Later arrivals to mainland France were mostly Gujaratis, Keralites and Indians from Mauritius, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, the Seychelles, Réunion, and Madagascar.
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
- Subrata K. Mitra
- Prithwindra Mukherjee
- Rudgy Pajany
- 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
References
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