27 Facts About British Asian

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An influx of Asian immigrants took place following the expulsion or flight of Indian communities from the newly independent Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania in the early 1970s.

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The British Sociological Association's guidelines on equality and diversity suggest that "South Asian" is more precise than "Asian" and that the latter should not be used where there is a risk of it conflating South Asians with people from elsewhere in Asia.

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Use of "British Asian Briton" has appeared as both an illustrative term in media and for purposes of self-identity.

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British Asian is a widely used term to describe British persons of Asian descent with either citizenship or residency in the UK.

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British Asian Indians tend to originate mainly from the two Indian States, Punjab and Gujarat.

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The second largest ethnic group of British Asian Pakistanis are the Punjabi people, largely from Attock District of Punjab followed by Pashtuns and other ethnic groups from the districts of Nowshera, Peshawar and Ghazi in province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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British Asian Britons have significant numbers of adherents to various major religions.

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British Asian Gujaratis are predominantly Hindu, belonging to various caste organizations, with large minorities of Muslims, Jains, and smaller numbers of Christians and Zoroastrians.

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9.

DNA surveys have linked Romanies to present-day South British Asian populations and the Romani language is a member of the Indo-Aryan language family.

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10.

British Asian wrote of his experiences and travels in his Persian book, Shigurf-nama-i-Wilayat .

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11.

The administrators of the British Empire termed Asian labourers working for them coolies, of which lascars were considered the maritime equivalent.

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12.

British Asian organised rallies and meetings with the likes of the Trades Union Congress.

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13.

British Asian encouraged lascars and seamen to remain and settle in the United Kingdom.

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14.

Several Asian Britons have broken into the UK film industry, as well as Hollywood, and the U S film industry at large; starring in high-grossing box office films, including major film series, and receiving subsequent international recognition and media attention.

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15.

British Asian's is an Oram Awards winner and curator of Usurp Art.

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16.

British Asian has been a photographer for more than forty years and "his photographs have been published in almost every major western media outlet".

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17.

The first South British Asian musician to gain wide popularity in the UK and worldwide fame was Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury, born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, East Africa, to parents of Parsi descent from Bombay .

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Just as in South Asia, the most popular sport among the British Asian community is cricket; as much as third of the players of the sport at recreational level are of South Asian descent.

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19.

British Asian Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian contestants have appeared on The Apprentice including Syed Ahmed, Tre Azam, Lohit Kalburgi, Ghazal Asif, Shazia Wahab, Sara Dhada, and most notably Saira Khan, who is a British Asian TV presenter.

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20.

In 2001, the Centre for Social Markets estimated that British Asian businesses contributed more than £5 billion to GDP.

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21.

Many Asian British people have made important contributions to the country's economy by leading and innovating in major UK and international industries.

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22.

British Asian is the "57th-most powerful person" of the 72 individuals named in Forbes' "Most Powerful People" list for 2015.

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23.

In 2019, eight of the top ten, including Mittal, were of a South Asian ethnic background, including Indian-born Briton S P Hinduja, of Sindhi heritage, who topped the rankings via the Hinduja Group, with an estimated fortune of £22 billion.

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24.

Exceptions included British Asian nationals David and Simon Reuben, who were both born in India, and were listed in joint-second place.

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25.

British Asian is the only Indian artist to have achieved 7 top forty hits in the National UK charts.

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26.

In 2020, BBC Four released an episode of A Very British Asian History focusing on the history of British Asian Bangladeshis and emigration from Bangladesh from the 1960s onwards, hosted by Dr Aminul Hoque.

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27.

In 2017, it was reported how gay British Asian Britons were "forced into heterosexual marriages" by cultural and religious pressure.

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