Hinduism in New Caledonia
Hinduism originally came to New Caledonia with Indians who worked as indentured servants of European settlers of the island. There are about 500 New Caledonians of Indian Tamil descent. They were known as Malabar and originally arrived in the 19th century from other French Territories, namely Réunion.[1]
New Caledonia has several descendants of Tamils, whose parents intermarried with the local population already in the last century. New Caledonia requires a special study since a large number of Tamils went there as laborers and a report in a book published about 1919 states that of the Chinese, Indians and Javanese who colonized new Caledonia, the Indians gave satisfaction.
See also
- Demographics of New Caledonia
- Demographics of Oceania
- Religion in Oceania
- History of the Jews in New Caledonia
References
- ↑ http://www.tamilnation.org/diaspora/newcaledonia.htm Tamil Diaspora of New Caledonia
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