Group: | Malaysians of Gujarati origin |
Population: | More than 31,500)(>1% of Malaysian Indians) |
Popplace: | Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia) |
Langs: | Gujarati, English, Malaysian and Tamil |
Rels: | Predominantly HinduismJainism |
Related: | Tamil, Tamil Malaysian, Malaysian Malayali, Indian Singaporeans, |
Malaysian Gujaratis are people of full or partial Gujarati descent who were born in or immigrated to Malaysia. The community arrived to Malaya during 14 century to trade spices with Sultanate of Malacca.[1] But, only during the 19th century this community settled in Malaysia.[2] Most of this community work as traders. The Gujaratis were mainly from the ports of Cambay, Kutch and Surat in India and settled in urban part of Malaya like Georgetown, Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh.[1] [3]