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British Indians are people of the United Kingdom (UK) whose ancestral roots are from India.Currently, the British Indian population exceeds 1.9 million people in the UK, making them the single largest visible ethnic minority population in the country.
During the period of British rule in India, children born to unions between British fathers and Indian mothers from the 17th century onwards formed the basis of the Anglo-Indian community. This new ethnic group formed a small yet significant portion of the population and became well represented in certain administrative roles.
The largest ethnic group in the United Kingdom is White British, followed by Asian British. Ethnicity in the United Kingdom is formally recorded at the national level through a census. The 2011 United Kingdom census recorded a reduced share of White British people in the United Kingdom from the previous 2001 United Kingdom census.
According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, there are 1,927,150 people of Indian/British Indian ethnicity (2.9%), 1,662,286 people of Pakistani /British Pakistani ethnicity (2.5%), 651,834 people of Bangladeshi/ British Bangladeshi ethnicity (1.0%), and an estimated further 700,000 from other South Asian heritage backgrounds.
National census classification of ethnicity A number of different systems of classification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom exist. These schemata have been the subject of debate, including about the nature of ethnicity, how or whether it can be categorised, and the relationship between ethnicity, race, and nationality. National statistics The ethnic group question used in the 2011 census in ...
David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808–1851), Anglo-Indian politician held to be the first person of Indian descent to be elected in British Parliament. Sheth Ghoolam Hyder (1776–1823), born in Darbhanga , Bihar , professor of Persian at the East India Company College .
At least in theory people in Britain of British and Indian ethnic origin only qualify for this category if the mixture of their ancestry occurred in India. See Category:British people in colonial India for Britons who resided in colonial India, also known, in Britain, as 'Anglo-Indians' (this includes those born in the British Raj of British ...
Proportion stating that their ethnic group was Indian in the 2011 census in Greater London. As at 2021, the Indian population of Greater London was 656,272 or 7.5% of the population, (including those of British Indian ethnic origin). [1]