13 Facts About Indian Singaporeans

1.

Indian Singaporeans are Singaporeans of Indian or South Asian ancestry, who constitute 9.

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2.

Indian Singaporeans are linguistically and religiously diverse, with ethnic Tamils and Hindus forming majorities.

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3.

Indian Singaporeans are collectively well represented, in areas such as politics, education, diplomacy and the law.

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4.

Indian Singaporeans Singaporean are grouped according to their respective ethnolinguistic backgrounds in the Indian Singaporeans subcontinent or 'dialect group'.

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5.

Indian Singaporeans influence is seen in symbols and mythology associated with ancient Singapore.

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6.

Indian Singaporeans contact was rekindled from 1819 to World War II, when both India and Singapore were under British colonial rule.

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7.

The Indian Singaporeans Independence League was a political organisation operated from the 1920s to the 1940s to organise those living outside of India to remove the British from India.

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8.

Indian Singaporeans National Army was an armed force formed by Indian Singaporeans nationalists in 1942 in South east Asia, during World War II.

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9.

For example, several Indian Singaporeans professionals supported the more conservative pro-British parties, as they had been beneficiaries of the colonial system.

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10.

Minority Indian Singaporeans groups include Malayalees, Telugu, Kannadigas, Punjabis, Sindhis, Gujaratis, Sinhalese, and Hindi-speaking people, among others.

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11.

The North Indian Singaporeans community established the Sri Lakshminarayan Temple, built in the North Indian Singaporeans style.

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12.

Indian Singaporeans dishes have become modified to different degrees, after years of contact with other Singapore cultures, and in response to locally available ingredients as well as changing local tastes.

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13.

Indian Singaporeans have made their mark nationally and even internationally in a variety of arenas.

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