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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{unreferenced|date=May 2019}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Maldivians in India
| image =
| langs = [[Dhivehi language|Dhivehi]], [[Malayalam]]
| population = 5,000
| popplace = South India, [[Thiruvananthapuram]]
| rels = [[Islam]]
| related = 
}}

There are over 5,000 expatriates from the '''[[Maldives]]''' who live in '''India'''. It is recorded to be the second largest population of Maldivians living abroad after [[Sri Lanka]]. They mostly travel to the nearest Indian city and capital of [[Kerala]], [[Thiruvananthapuram]], for educational and health facilities.

==Maldivian students==
A large number of Maldivian students study in [[Trivandrum]], Mysuru and Bengaluru.

==Mahl people==
Most Mahls live in their native land of [[Minicoy|Maliku (Minicoy)]] in the union territory of [[Lakshadweep]], [[India]]. In Lakshadweep the Mahls emerged as a separate ethnic group and are 15.67% of the total population of Lakshadweep. There are migrant communities of Mahls in other parts of India too. The origin of all the Mahl communities in India and elsewhere lies in the island of [[Minicoy]]. A number of Mahls have settled in the districts of [[Kozhikode district|Kozhikode]], [[Malappuram]], [[Ernakulam]] and [[Thiruvananthapuram|Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum)]] in the southern state of [[Kerala]]. There is a community of Mahls in Kerala who came and settled there in the 17th century, when the islands of [[Lakshadweep]] came under the rule of [[Ali Raja]]hs/Arakkal Bheevi of [[Kannur]].

==See also==
* [[Mahl people]], ethnic Maldivians of Lakshadweep, India
* [[Indians in Maldives]]
* [[India–Maldives relations]]

==References==
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{{Maldivian diaspora}}
{{Immigration to India}}

[[Category:Maldivian diaspora by country|India]]
[[Category:Maldivian diaspora in Asia|India]]
[[Category:Immigration to India]]
[[Category:India–Maldives relations]]
[[Category:Indian people of Maldivian descent| ]]


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