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Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The majority live in and around the city of Durban, making it one of the largest ethnically Indian-populated cities outside of India.
In South Africa, Asian usually refers to people of South Asian ancestry, more commonly called Indians. [1] [2] They are largely descended from people who migrated to South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th century from British ruled South Asia. The "Indian"/"Asian" identity was codified by law under Apartheid as a race group. [3]
By 2005, an estimated 212 000 British citizens had sought out new lives in South Africa, growing up to 500 000 by 2011. [28] Between 2000 and 2010 South Africans of European descent returned in large numbers. By May 2014, it was estimated that around 340 000 former South Africans had returned home after immigrating elsewhere in the preceding ...
"Habshis and Siddis – Africans and African descendants in South Asia", ColorQ World. The Global African Community/Great Habshis in Ethiopian/Indian History; History of the Ethiopian Diaspora; Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, "South Asia's Africans: A Forgotten People", History Workshop, 5 February 2011. Lord of All He Surveys, The Express Travel
Majority of the Hindus in South Africa are Indian South Africans. [34] The proportion of Indian South Africans following Hinduism has decreased from 50% in 1996 to 47.27% in 2001. [ 34 ] This further decreased to 41.3% in 2016, mainly due to the conversion of Hindus by the Christian missionaries .
Estimates during the period of 1829-1924 suggest that about 769,427 Indians migrated out of India into Mauritius, South Africa, Seychelles, and the East African region. In the midst of colonization, the sub-continent India and large masses of Africa were incorporated into the British Empire such as Sierra Leone and the most common example ...
South African politicians of Indian descent (3 C, 77 P) + Indian emigrants to South Africa (5 P) A. South African people of Anglo-Indian descent (1 P) G.
The Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa consists of approximately 3 million people of Indian origin. Some of this diaspora in Southeast Africa arrived in the 19th century from British India as indentured labourers , many of them to work on the Kenya–Uganda railway .