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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{about|people originating from [[India]]|native ethnic groups of Brazil, also sometimes called "Indians"|Indigenous peoples in Brazil}}<br />
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{{Infobox ethnic group<br />
| group = Indians in Brazil<br />
| pop = 25,639 (2024)<ref>[https://www.nepo.unicamp.br/observatorio/bancointerativo/numeros-imigracao-internacional/sincre-sismigra/ Imigrantes internacionais registrados (Registro Nacional de Estrangeiro - RNE/ Registro Nacional Migratório - RNM]</ref><br />
| popplace = {{hlist| [[São Paulo]] | [[Rio de Janeiro]] | [[Manaus]] | [[Foz do Iguaçu]] | [[Curitiba]]}}<br />
| langs = {{hlist| [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] | [[Languages of India|Various Indian Languages]] | [[English language|English]] }}<br />
| rels = {{hlist| [[Hinduism]] | [[Christianity in India|Christianity]] | [[Islam]] | [[Sikhism]] }}<br />
| related-c = [[Indo-Caribbeans]], [[Indians in Argentina|Indian Argentines]] and [[Luso-Indian]]s<br />
}}<br />
There is a small community of '''Indians in Brazil''' who are mainly immigrants and expatriates from [[India]]. As of 2024, there are currently 25,639 people of Indian origin living in the country and a majority of them live in [[São Paulo]] and [[Rio de Janeiro]]. There are also a number of people of Indian origin (mainly from the former colony of [[Portuguese Goa]]) who came to Brazil from both Britain's and Portugal's African colonies in the later half of the twentieth century.<br />
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==Migration history==<br />
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===Early Indian presence in Brazil===<br />
The earliest Indians to arrive in Brazil were Indian seamen or [[Lascar]]s, known as "Lascarim" in Portuguese. They arrived between the sixteenth and mid-seventeenth century, when the most important parts of the [[Portuguese Empire]] were their colonies in Asia. These included [[Diu, India|Diu]], [[Daman, Daman and Diu|Daman]], [[Bombay]], [[Thana]], [[Goa]], [[Cochin]] and some smaller settlements in [[Hooghly River|Hugli River]].<br />
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Later as the settlement of coastal Brazil developed, many governors, Catholic clerics, and soldiers who had formally served in Asia arrived with their Asian wives, concubines, servants and slaves. Later [[Luso-Indian]] servants and clerics connected with the religious orders, such as the [[Jesuits]] and [[Franciscans]], and spice cultivators arrived in Brazil.<ref>East in the West: Investigating the Asian presence and influence in Northeast Brazil from the 16th to the 18th centuries. By Clifford Pereira. In Proceedings of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage. Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA. May 2014.</ref><br />
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In the eighteenth century there were Luso-Indians arriving in Brazil on ships of the English [[East India Company]].<ref>Research by Clifford Pereira 2010.</ref><br />
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===20th century Indian Immigration to Brazil===<br />
* The first wave of Indian immigration to Brazil began when a small number of [[Sindhis|Sindhi]]s had arrived there from [[Suriname]] and [[Central America]] (mainly from [[Belize]] and [[Panama]]) in the 1960s to set up shop as traders in the city of [[Manaus]]. <br />
* The second wave of immigration consisted of university professors to [[Rio de Janeiro]] from [[Bangalore]], [[Goa]], and [[New Delhi]] who arrived in the 1960s and also in the 1970s. <br />
* Other people of Indian Origin migrated to that country from various African countries, mainly from former Portuguese colonies (especially [[Mozambique]]), soon after their independence in the 1970s. The number of [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|PIO]]s in Brazil has been augmented in recent years by the arrival of nuclear scientists and computer professionals.<br />
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==Current status==<br />
There are as many as 1,500 PIOs and only 400 NRIs besides the descendants and only since foreign nationals can acquire local citizenship without any discrimination after 15 years of domicile in this country. Brazil has also no bar against dual citizenship, although India does ban its citizens from obtaining dual citizenship. But in recent years, it has been granting immigration visas only in high technology fields. The only exceptions are the Sindhis in Manaus and the immigrants and descendants in [[Rio de Janeiro]] and [[São Paulo]].<br />
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Most of the Indians living in Brazil have not only been able to assimilate themselves in the Brazilian way of life but also maintain close cultural and economic connection with India.<ref>[http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=37364 President of India's Address to the Indian Community at São Paulo], pib.nic.in</ref><br />
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==Notable people==<br />
* [[Suresh Biswas]] (1861–1905), adventurer from British India<br />
* [[Ashok Gandotra]] (born 1948), cricketer<br />
* [[Froilano de Mello]] (1887–1955), microbiologist from Goa<br />
* [[Nathalia Kaur]] (born 1990), model, [[Bollywood]] actress and opera singer<br />
* [[Sadhan Kumar Adhikari]], Brazilian physicist<br />
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==See also== <br />
* [[Brazil–India relations]]<br />
* [[Asian Brazilians]] <br />
* [[Asian Latin Americans]]<br />
* [[Brazilians in India]]<br />
* [[Bangladeshi immigration to Brazil]]<br />
* [[Caminho das Índias]]<br />
* [[Pakistanis in Brazil]]<br />
* [[Romani people in Brazil]]<br />
* [[Sikhism in Brazil]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Ancestry and ethnicity in Brazil}}<br />
{{Indian diaspora}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian diaspora by country|Brazil]]<br />
[[Category:Indian diaspora in South America|Brazil]]<br />
[[Category:Brazilian people of Indian descent|*]]<br />
[[Category:Asian diaspora in Brazil|Indian]]<br />
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