Group: | Indians in France |
Population: | 190,000 (2010s)[1] |
Popplace: | Paris, Overseas France, French Alps |
Langs: | Bengali,English,French,Gujarati, Hindi,Konkani,Malayalam,Punjabi,Tamil,Telugu and otherIndian languages, |
Rels: | Predominantly HinduismMinority Sikhism, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism |
Related-C: | Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin, Tamil, Desi, Indians in Germany, Indians in Switzerland, Indians in Italy, British Indians, Indian Maltese, South Asians in Ireland, Indo-Canadians, Indians in China, Indian Singaporeans, Indians in Hong Kong |
Indo-French people or Indians in France are expatriate residents from India in France, as well as people of Indian national origin., 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.
A majority of the Indian community hails from West Bengal, Puducherry and 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.