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{{Infobox ethnic group
|group = Indians in Poland
|population = from 4,000 (2014)<ref>Pędziwiatr, K., Kugiel, P. (2014) [http://www.pism.pl/publications/PISM-Report/The-Indian-Diaspora-and-Poland-India-Relations#page=5 The Indian Diaspora and Poland–India Relations. PISM Report] p.5</ref> to 15,000<ref>[https://www.indiancommunityofpoland.org Indian Community of Poland] </ref>
|popplace = [[Warsaw]]{{·}}[[Łódź]]{{·}}[[Pabianice]]
|langs = [[Polish language|Polish]]{{·}}[[English language|English]]{{·}} [[Languages of India|Other Indian languages]]
|rels = [[Hinduism]]{{·}}[[Sikhism]]
|related-c = [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|People of Indian Origin]]
}}
'''Indians in Poland''' consist of migrants from [[India]] to [[Poland]] and their locally born descendants. The estimations of number of Indians in Poland vary from 4,000 by governmental sources <ref>Ministry of External Affairs, India (2018) [http://mea.gov.in/images/attach/NRIs-and-PIOs_1.pdf#page=5 Population of Overseas Indians] p.5</ref> <ref>Pędziwiatr, K., Kugiel, P. (2014) [http://www.pism.pl/publications/PISM-Report/The-Indian-Diaspora-and-Poland-India-Relations#page=5 The Indian Diaspora and Poland–India Relations. PISM Report] p.5</ref> <ref>Namaste-Polsko, Sytuacja i potrzeby imigrantów z Indii w Polsce. Iwona Bąbiak, Katarzyna Gmaj (ed) (2015) [http://fds.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Namaste-Polsko.pdf#page=79 Namaste-Polsko] p.79</ref> to 15,000.<ref>[https://www.indiancommunityofpoland.org Indian Community of Poland] </ref>

==Migration history==
Indians started migrating to Poland in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the political situation changed and new opportunities started to emerge.<ref>[http://kontynent-warszawa.pl/l-en-content-6-columns-1519-on_indian_community_in_warsaw-52.htm Kontynent-Warszawa- On Indian community in Warsaw]</ref> Most of them are businessmen {{citation needed|date=January 2012}} who migrated to cash on the economic boom after [[Warsaw]] opted for a free-market economy in 1989 and [[2004 enlargement of the European Union|joined the European Union in 2004]]. In 2007, Poland signed an agreement with India to admit more Indian migrant workers, as part of an effort to ameliorate labour shortages caused by the outward migration of hundreds of thousands of Polish workers to richer countries in the European Union.<ref>[http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2007/06/26/poland_the_next_hot_destination_for_indians Poland: The Next Hot Destination for Indians]</ref> New important group of Indians in Poland are students and academics.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/16865133/Poland_as_a_Study_Destination_The_Case_of_Indians_at_Polish_Universities Pędziwiatr, K., Kugiel, P. (2015) Poland as a Study Destination: The Case of Indians at Polish Universities, In: Surdej, A., Kędzierski, M., (ed.) Economic Challenges for Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń, 187-213]</ref> Recent research shows that the Indian community is quite well integrated in the Polish society.<ref>[https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/185705/The%20Indian%20Diaspora%20and%20Poland%E2%80%93India%20Relations.pdf Pędziwiatr, K., Kugiel, P. (2014) The Indian Diaspora and Poland–India Relations. PISM Report]</ref>

'''Number of work permits for Indian citizens and number of Indian students enrolled in Polish universities'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Year
!Total number of work permits for foreigners issued <ref>{{cite web|url=http://psz.praca.gov.pl/-/8180234-informacje-o-zatrudnieniu-cudzoziemcow-w-polsce|title='Informacja o zatrudnieniu cudzoziemców w Polsce, 2018, Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, Table 2 and 3, p. 2'|website= psz.praca.gov.pl |access-date=18 May 2019}}</ref>
!Of which for Indians (%)
!Number of work permits for Indian citizens*
!Academic year
! Number of Indian students enrolled in Polish universities
|-
| 2010
| 36 800
| 3,2
| 1 189<ref>Namaste-Polsko, Sytuacja i potrzeby imigrantów z Indii w Polsce. Iwona Bąbiak, Katarzyna Gmaj (ed) (2015) [http://fds.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Namaste-Polsko.pdf#page=16 Namaste-Polsko] p.16</ref>
| 2009-10
| 227<ref>Namaste-Polsko, Sytuacja i potrzeby imigrantów z Indii w Polsce. Iwona Bąbiak, Katarzyna Gmaj (ed) (2015) [http://fds.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Namaste-Polsko.pdf#page=18 Namaste-Polsko] p.18</ref>
|-
| 2011
| 40 808
| 2,6
| 1 055
| 2010-11
| 148
|-
| 2012
| 39 144
| 2,78%
| 1 088
| 2011-12
| 189
|-
| 2013
| 39 078
| 3,33%
| 1 301
| 2012-13
| 204
|-
| 2014
| 43 663
| 2,84%
| 1 240
| 2013-14
| 321<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perspektywy.pl/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1572:bezprecedensowy-wzrost-liczby-studentow-zagranicznych-w-polsce&catid=24:wydarzenia&Itemid=119|title='Report "Studenci zagraniczni w Polsce 2014"'|website= perspektywy.pl|access-date=18 May 2019}}</ref>
|-
| 2015
| 65 786
| 2,17%
| 1 428
| 2014-15
| 545<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perspektywy.pl/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2221:juz-ponad-46-tysiecystudentow-zagranicznych-w-polsce&catid=24&Itemid=119|title='Report "Studenci zagraniczni w Polsce 2015"'|website= perspektywy.pl|access-date=18 May 2019}}</ref>
|-
| 2016
| 127 394
| 1,39%
| 1 771
| 2015-16
| 896<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.perspektywy.pl/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2899:w-polsce-studiuje-57-119-studentow-zagranicznych-ze-157-krajow&catid=22&Itemid=119|title='Report "Studenci zagraniczni w Polsce 2016"'|website= perspektywy.pl|access-date=18 May 2019}}</ref>
|-
| 2017
| 235 626
| 1,61%
| 3 794
| 2016-17
| 2 138<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studyinpoland.pl/konsorcjum/images/stories/145_2017_newsletter/raport-sz2017-tabela.jpg|title='Report "Studenci zagraniczni w Polsce 2017"'|website= studyinpoland.pl|access-date=18 May 2019}}</ref>
|-
| 2018
| 328 768
| 2,54%
| 8 362
| 2017-18
| 2 987<ref>{{cite web|url= https://prenumeruj.forumakademickie.pl/fa/2019/02/kronika-wydarzen/studenci-zagraniczni-w-polsce-2018 |title='Report "Studenci zagraniczni w Polsce 2018"'|website= prenumeruj.forumakademickie.pl |access-date=18 May 2019}}</ref>
|-
| 2019
| *
| *%
| *
| 2018-19
| 3600 (preliminary data)
|}
* (calculated on basis of col. 1 and col. 2)

==Culture==
The Indian community in Poland is a business minded community. They have their own '[[Little India (location)|Little India]]' in [[Warsaw]] and [[Krakow]] as a large number of the community are based there while there are others based in [[Łódź]] and [[Pabianice]].

==Religion==
[[File:Ratha Yatra Wroclaw 2010.jpg|thumb|right|130px|Ratha Yatra festival organised by the New Navadvip Temple in Wrocław in 2010]]
{{Further information|List of Hindu temples in Poland}}
Hindus and Sikhs form the majority of the Indian community. [[Hinduism]] has spread to [[Poland]] through [[ISKCON]] missionaries since 1976. The first Polish Hindu temple was established in 1980 in [[Czarnów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship]] ([[New Shantipur Temple in Czarnów]]).<ref>[http://www.harekryszna.pl/index.php?id=2 Polish ISKCON history (in Polish)], accessed 2010.8.4</ref> A new Hindu Temple named the Hindu Bhavan was constructed in Warsaw.<ref>[http://vivekajyoti.blogspot.com/2010/06/poland-to-get-hindu-temple-by-august.html Pakistan Hindu Post - Poland to get a Hindu temple by August]</ref> The Indian community hopes that the temple sensitizes the community's youth towards Indian tradition and customs as well as to use the new place of worship as a tool to integrate with Polish society.

There are about 120 Sikh families in Warsaw.<ref>[http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/indian-community-celebrates-baisakhi-in-poland_10037533.html Thaindian News - Indian community celebrates Baisakhi in Poland]</ref> The city's Sikh [[Gurdwara]] the only Sikh shrine in the whole of [[Eastern Europe]] and it is the place where both Sikhs and Sindhis come together to celebrate [[Baisakhi]].

==See also==
* [[India–Poland relations]]
* [[Indians in Russia]]
* [[Hinduism in Poland]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.indiancommunityofpoland.org Indian Community of Poland]
{{Immigration to Poland}}
{{NRI-PIO}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Indians In Poland}}
[[Category:Asian_diaspora_in_Poland]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Poland]]
[[Category:Indian diaspora in Europe|Poland]]
[[Category:India–Poland relations]]
[[Category:Indian diaspora by country]]
[[Category:Polish people of Indian descent| ]]

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