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Malaysian Indians. Malaysian Indians or Indo-Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Indian or South Asian ancestry. They now form the fourth-largest group in Malaysia, after the Malays, Chinese, and the indigenous groups of Malaysia. Most are descendants of those who migrated from India to British Malaya from the mid-19th to the mid-20th ...
Kaum India di Sabah. Total population. 5,962. 2.5% of Sabah total population (2015) [1] Regions with significant populations. Malaysia (Kota Kinabalu, Lahad Datu and Sandakan) Languages. Tamil (Malaysian Tamil) majority/dominant, and English (Tanglish and Manglish) Other Indian languages: Telugu, Punjabi, Malayalam.
Sybil Medan Kathigasu GM (née Daly; 3 September 1899 – 12 June 1948) was a Malayan Eurasian nurse who supported the resistance during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. She is the only Malayan woman ever to be awarded the George Medal for bravery. In July 2024, the Bishop of Penang, Cardinal Sebastian Francis, announced that, in light of her ...
This is a list of notable Malaysians of Indian origin, including original immigrants who obtained Malaysian citizenship and their Malaysian descendants.Entries on this list are demonstrably notable by having a linked current article or reliable sources as footnotes against the name to verify they are notable and define themselves either full or partial Indian origin, whose ethnic origin lie in ...
The people of the Malay Peninsula begin receiving influences of South India around the 4th century, mainly through trading. However, the arrival of Alfonso de Albuquerque along with 800 Portuguese and 600 Malabari fighting men from Cochin during the Capture of Malacca in 1511 had the earliest records that clearly state the arrival of Malayalees in the Malay Peninsula.
Malaysian Indians · Malaysian Pakistanis. Punjabi Malaysians are people of full or partial Punjabi descent who were born in or immigrated to Malaysia. Originating from the Punjab region of present-day India and Pakistan, Punjabi immigration to Malaysia began in the 19th century from what was then British India to British Malaya. [2]
Malaysian Indians in Selangor. The 2.02 million Indian community in Malaysia is the smallest of the three main ethnic groups, comprising only 6.6% of the total population excluding non-citizens as of 2021. Indians were brought in to Malaysia during the British colonial period in late 18th century and early 19th centuries.
A group of Tamil people in British Malaya, 1898. Tamil Malaysians, also known as Malaysian Tamilar, are people of full or partial Tamil descent who were born in or immigrated to Malaysia from Tamil Nadu, India and the Tamil regions of north-east Sri Lanka. The majority of 1.8–2 million people 80% of the Malaysian Indian populations in ...