| Group: | British Indo-Caribbean people |
| Population: | Indo-Guyanese - Unknown Indo-Jamaican - Unknown Indo-Trinidadians - Approx 25,000[1] Indo-Surinamese - Unknown |
| Regions: | United Kingdom In particular London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester, Leeds, Glasgow, Preston, Sheffield, Liverpool, Nottingham, Southampton, Bristol, Newcastle upon Tyne, Slough, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Stoke on Trent, Coventry |
| Religions: | Majority: Significant Minority: Other Minority: |
| Related: | British IndiansIndian diasporaIndo-Caribbean peopleIndo-Caribbean AmericansIndians in the Netherlands |
British Indo-Caribbean people are British citizens, whose recent ancestors came from the Caribbean, and who further trace their ancestry back to India and the wider subcontinent. The UK has a large population of Indo-Caribbean people.[2]
Indian people were first introduced to the Caribbean as indentured laborers by the British government beginning in the 1830s after the abolition of slavery and when cheap labour was needed. The majority settled in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname. There are smaller but well established population in Jamaica, Saint Lucia and other Caribbean countries. The Indian communities in these countries have now become extremely well established and currently have a very successful diaspora. With the strong links between the Caribbean and the UK, as well as the large Indian community in the UK, it has proven a popular destination for Indo-Caribbean emigrants. In 1990, between 22,800 and 30,400 Indo-Caribbean people were estimated to be living in the UK.[3]
See also: Indo-Guyanese and Guyanese in the United Kingdom.
Notable Britons of Indo-Guyanese descent include Arif Ali, Waheed Alli, Baron Alli,, Shakira Caine, David Dabydeen, Gina Miller, Bishnodat Persaud, Avinash Persaud, Raj Persaud and Gordon Warnecke, and Mark Ramprakash.
See also: Indo-Jamaicans and British Jamaicans. A notable Briton of Indo-Jamaican descent is Lee Gopthal. The British eighties pop group Five Star are of Indo Caribbean descent through their mother.
See also: Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian and Trinidadian and Tobagonian British.
Indo-Trinidadian people are thought to number well over 25,000, which is even more than the number of people born in Trinidad and Tobago living in the UK according to the 2001 Census. Notable Britons of Indo-Trinidadian descent include Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, Chris Bisson, Vahni Capildeo, Krishan Kumar, Krishna Maharaj, Shiva Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, Lakshmi Persaud, Avinash Persaud and Raj Persaud.
See also: Indo-Surinamese.