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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Indians in Tanzania
| native_name = {{nowrap|{{small|{{native phrase|sw|Watanzania wenye asili ya Kihindi}}}}}}
| image =
| population = {{circa}} 60,000 (2015)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mea.gov.in/Portal/ForeignRelation/Tanzania_2015_07_09.pdf |title=India - Tanzania Relations |date=2015 |publisher=Ministry of External Affairs |access-date=22 July 2015 |quote=''Tanzania has about 50,000 PIOs.. There are about 10,000 Indian nationals [expatriates].''}}</ref>{{Ref|Notea|[a]}}
| genealogy =
| regions = [[Dar es Salaam]], [[Zanzibar]]
| languages = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Kutchi language|Kutchi]], [[Swahili language|Kiswahili]], [[English language|English]], [[Hindi]]
| religions = [[Islam]], [[Hinduism]], [[Zoroastrianism]], [[Sikhism]]; significant minorities [[Christianity]]
| related_groups = [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|PIO, NRI]] and [[Desi]]
| footnotes = a.{{Note|Notea}} includes about 10,000 [[Non-Resident Indians|expatriates]]
| native_name_lang =
}}

[[File:Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with Indian Community members in Tanzania.jpg|thumb|Indian Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] meets members of Indian community in Dar es Salaam, 10 July 2016]]
There are currently over 50,000 '''people of Indian origin in Tanzania'''. Many of them are traders and they control a sizeable portion of the [[Economy of Tanzania|Tanzanian economy]]. Indians have a long history in [[Tanzania]] starting with the arrival of [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] traders. They came to gradually control the trade in [[Zanzibar]]. Many of the buildings constructed then still remain in [[Stone Town]], the focal trading point on the island.

== History ==
Indian merchant and artisan community settlements is attested in both archaeological and literary sources. In 13th-14th century, Indian artisans were manufacturing glass beads using tube drawing technology at [[Zanzibar]]. Trade between Malindi and Bengal is also attested during early medieval periods. [[Vasco da Gama]] when he landed in east african coast found indians residing in [[Kilwa Kisiwani|Kilwa]], [[Mombasa]] and [[Mozambique]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wood|first=Marilee|title=Interconnections: glass beads and trade in southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean - 7th to 16th centuries AD|url=https://www.academia.edu/6170595|journal=Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa|year=2012|language=en|volume=47|issue=2|pages=248|doi=10.1080/0067270X.2012.680307|s2cid=162211326|issn=0067-270X}}</ref><ref>Jeevanjee 1912</ref>

==Migration from Tanzania==
As a result of anti-Indian sentiment in post-independence Tanzania (beginning with the presidency of [[Julius Nyerere]]), many Indians migrated overseas to India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, among other nations.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Adam, Michel (Africanist), editor.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/966879871|title=Indian Africa : minorities of Indian-Pakistani origin in eastern Africa|date=2016|publisher=[Publisher not identified]|isbn=978-9987-753-51-2|oclc=966879871}}</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[Freddie Mercury]], rock musician (of Parsi descent)
*[[Amir H. Jamal]], former Minister of Finance
*[[Al Noor Kassum]], former Energy Minister
*[[Andy Chande]], businessman and philanthropist
*[[Mustafa Jaffer Sabodo]], economist and philanthropist
*Shamim Khan, former Member of Parliament
*[[Ian Iqbal Rashid]], filmmaker
*[[Sangita Myska]], BBC journalist, documentary maker, TV & Radio presenter
*[[Mohammed Dewji]], CEO of MeTL, Member of Parliament (2005–2015)
*[[Ismail Jussa]], opposition politician
*[[Mohamed Raza]], Member of the [[Zanzibar House of Representatives]]
*[[Issa G. Shivji]], author and academic
*[[Abdul Sheriff]], historian
*[[Richa Adhia]], Miss Tanzania 2007
*[[Mustafa Hassanali]], fashion designer
*[[Ally Rehmtullah]], fashion designer
*[[Ammaar Ghadiyali]], 2012 Olympic swimmer
*[[Deepak Obhrai]] <small>[[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|MP]]</small>, longest continuously-serving Conservative Member of Canadian Parliament
*[[Rakesh Rajani]], civil society and global development leader
*[[Raheem Kassam]], conservative British political activist. His parents were [[Tanzania|Tanzanian]] immigrants of [[India|Indian]] origin.

==Gallery==
<gallery class="center" widths="145px">
The National Archives UK - CO 1069-159-39.jpg|[[Julius Nyerere]] with [[Amir H. Jamal|Amir Jamal]] (r)
The National Archives UK - CO 1069-164-62.jpg|[[St. John Ambulance]] Brigade parade
The National Archives UK - CO 1069-157-91.jpg|Karimjee Hall, seat of the parliament in Dar es Salaam
The National Archives UK - CO 1069-182-1.jpg|The Hassanali Karimjee Jivanjee Hospital, Zanzibar
People's Bank of Zanzibar.jpg|The former headquarters of Karimjee Co in Zanzibar
File:Stone Town Old Dispensary.jpg|The former [[Ithnashiri Dispensary]], Zanzibar
Zanzibar 2012 06 06 4208 (7592234458).jpg|Bharmal Building, currently used as a municipal building
Colonial-Era Facade - Dar es Salaam - Tanzania - 02.jpg|A colonial era building with the [[Om]] symbol (1930)
Karimjee Jivanjee Office Building in Dar es Salaam.jpg|Karimjee Jivanjee Office in Dar es Salaam
Morogoro Jamatkhana.jpg|Morogoro [[Jamatkhana]]
Temple at Zanzibar.jpg|Shakti Temple, Zanzibar
Dar-es-Salaam Swaminarayan Temple.jpg|[[Swaminarayan]] Temple
</gallery>

==See also==

*[[Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa]]
*[[Chinese people in Tanzania]]
* [[Shirazi people]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120206063957/http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter8.pdf Indian Diaspora in Africa]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071217134908/http://www.rudyfoto.com/IndiansofAfrica.html Indians of East Africa]

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