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This is a list of Prominent Indian pioneers in Singapore, who have made significant contributions nationally or internationally in various fields. The list consists primarily of ethnic South Asia Singapore does not have Indians ethnic South Asian Singapore permanent residents as well. (Prominent ethnic South Asian citizens of other countries ...
S. Jayakumar - politician, diplomat, lawyer and author. J B Jeyeratnam. Devan Nair - 3rd President of Singapore. Hri Kumar Nair. Indranee Rajah. K. Shanmugam - Minister for Foreign Affairs. Tharman Shanmugaratnam - current President of Singapore. Pritam Singh - Leader of the Opposition, Secretary-General of the Workers' Party.
The 1915 Singapore Mutiny, also known as the 1915 Sepoy Mutiny, was an incident concerning 850 sepoys (Indian soldiers) who mutinied against the British on 15 February 1915 in Singapore, as part of the 1915 Ghadar Conspiracy (not to be mistaken for the Indian Mutiny of 1857).
Malaysian Malayali. Eurasians in Singapore. Indians in South Africa, Indo-Caribbeans, Indo-Mauritians, Indo-Fijians. Indian Singaporeans are Singaporeans of Indian or of general South Asian ancestry. They constitute approximately 9.0% of the country's residents, making them the third largest ancestry and ethnic group in Singapore. [1]
There were an estimated 172,963 Hindus in Singapore according to the 2020 Census constituting 5.0% of the Singapore's population. [6][7][8] Almost all Hindus in Singapore are ethnic Indians (99%), with some who have married into Hindu families. Hinduism peaked at 5.5% of the total population in 1931. [9]
Sri Vishnu (Perumal / Rama and Krishna/Hanuman) temples. Sri Krishnan Temple, 152 Waterloo Street, Singapore 187961 [7] Sree Ramar Temple, 51 Changi Village Road, Singapore 509908. BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, 81 Joo Chiat Road, #02-04, Singapore 427725. Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, 397 Serangoon Road Singapore 218123.
The Sri Mariamman Temple was founded in 1827 by Naraina Pillai, eight years after the East India Company established a trading settlement in Singapore. Pillai was a government clerk from Penang who arrived in Singapore with Sir Stamford Raffles on his second visit to the island in May 1819. Pillai went on to set up the island's first ...
v. t. e. The Kingdom of Singapura (Malay: Kerajaan Singapura) was a Malay Hindu - Buddhist kingdom thought to have been established during the early history of Singapore upon its main island Temasek from 1299 until its fall sometime between 1396 and 1398. [2]