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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Indians in the Netherlands
| flag = {{flagicon|India}} {{flagicon|The Netherlands}}<br>{{small|(Dutch Indians)}}<br>{{flagicon|India}} {{flagicon|Suriname}} {{flagicon|The Netherlands}}<br>{{small|(Dutch Indo-Surinamese)}}
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| population = 240,000 (estimated)<ref name="Embassy">{{cite web |url=https://www.indianembassy.nl/page/community/ |title = "Indian Community in Netherlands" |access-date =17 November 2020}}</ref>
| popplace = [[Amsterdam]], [[Amstelveen]], [[The Hague]], [[Rotterdam]], [[Eindhoven]], [[Utrecht]], [[Almere]], [[Delft]], [[Haarlemmermeer]], [[Zoetermeer]]
| rels = [[Hinduism]], [[Sikhism]], [[Islam]], [[Christianity]]
| langs = [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[English language|English]], [[Sranan Tongo]], [[Caribbean Hindustani#Sarnami Hindustani|Sarnami Hindustani]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Hindi]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], other [[Languages of South Asia|South Asian languages]]
| related = [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin]], [[Indian people]], [[Indo-Surinamese]]
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}}

'''Indians in the Netherlands''' are residents of [[Indian people|Indian]] origin in the [[Netherlands]]. The majority of the people of Indian descent in the Netherlands are of [[Indo-Surinamese]] origin.<ref name="Embassy" /> More recently the flow of emigrants from [[India]] has increased, especially information technology professionals.

== History ==
In 2017, 8,630 Indians immigrated to the Netherlands, making them the second largest recent immigrant group after the [[Syrians in the Netherlands|Syrians]].<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/08/28/hier-wil-men-perfectie-tot-in-de-details-a3971441 |title=Het leven hier is beter dan in India|newspaper=NRC|publisher=NRC.nl|date=28 August 2019}}</ref> Most of them were highly skilled migrants working in [[information technology]] and information services.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2019/30/aantal-indiase-kennismigranten-verdubbeld|title= Aantal Indiase kennismigranten verdubbeld|publisher=CBS.nl|date=25 July 2019}}</ref> Moreover, the number of Indians who came to study in the Netherlands has more than tripled: from 425 migrant students in 2012 to 1,400 migrant students in 2017. Between January and November 2019, 6,322 Indians immigrated to the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rtlz.nl/algemeen/binnenland/artikel/4974276/immigratie-migratie-cbs-polen-india-nederland-bevolking-groei|title= Migranten in Nederland: 'Polen en Indiërs aan kop, dat komt door de markt'|publisher=RTL Nieuws|date=3 January 2020}}</ref> Nevertheless, Indian migrants often stay in the Netherlands temporarily, as about 45% leave the country within six years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2003/04/een-op-de-drie-immigranten-vertrekt-binnen-zes-jaar|title=Een op de drie immigranten vertrekt binnen zes jaar|publisher=CBS.nl|date=20 January 2003}}</ref>

As of 2019, about 48,724 people of Indian immigrant descent lived in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/37713/table?ts=1567780803956|title=Bevolking; leeftijd, migratieachtergrond, geslacht en regio, 1 januari|publisher=CBS|access-date=13 March 2020}}</ref> Most of them live in the provinces of [[North Holland]], [[South Holland]] and [[North Brabant]].

=== Indo-Surinamese ===
{{see also|Indo-Surinamese}}
After the abolition of slavery in the Dutch colony of [[Suriname]], the Dutch government signed [[Anglo-Dutch Treaties of 1870–71|a treaty with the United Kingdom on the recruitment of contract workers]]. Indians began migrating to Suriname in 1873 from what was then [[British Raj|British India]] as [[Indentured servitude|indentured labourers]], mostly from the modern-day Indian states of [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[Bihar]] and the surrounding regions.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hindostanen in Suriname (in Dutch)|url=https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoekhulpen/hindostanen-in-suriname|website=Outlook|access-date=21 April 2020}}</ref>

Up until the independence of Suriname in 1975, all the Indo-Surinamese were formally part of the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]] and thus owned a Dutch passport. After the independence a significant portion of the Indo-Surinamese population migrated to the Netherlands, thereby retaining their Dutch passport. Currently there are more than 120,000 Indo-Surinamese living in the Netherlands, of which the majority, about 50,000, in [[The Hague]] and surroundings.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

Indo-Surinamese are also known in both the Netherlands and Suriname by the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] term ''Hindoestanen'', derived from the word ''[[Hindustan#People|Hindustani]]'', lit., "someone from [[Hindustan]]".<ref>{{cite book|last1=van der Zeijden|first1=Albert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TmDzd8Tlvz4C&q=hindoestanen%20in%20suriname&pg=PA154|title=''De cultuurgeschiedenis van de dood''|date=1990|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=9789051832167|page=154}}</ref> Hence, when Indians migrated to Suriname they were referred to as Hindustanis, people of Indian origin.

==Statistics==

In December 2001 the High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora estimated the population of [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|PIO's and Indian citizens]] at 215,000.<ref>[http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/contents.htm Report of the High Level Committee on the Indian Diaspora] December 2001.</ref> According to the Dutch governmental institution [[Statistics Netherlands]] (CBS), in January 2016, 32,682 people had their origin from immigrants from India.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://statline.cbs.nl/Statweb/publication/?DM=SLEN&PA=37325eng&D1=a&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=101&D6=13-20&LA=EN&VW=T |title=CBS StatLine - Population; sex, age, origin and generation, 1 January |work=statline.cbs.nl |access-date=15 September 2016}}</ref> The [[List of diplomatic missions of India#Europe|Embassy of India]] states that the Netherlands has the "second largest population of people of Indian origin in Europe (next only to UK)" and that it is "home to about 220,000 Indian and Surinamese Hindustani Diaspora."<ref>[http://www.indianembassy.nl/eoi.php?id=Community Embassy of India: Indian Community in Netherlands].</ref> The [[NICCT|Netherlands India Chamber of Commerce & Trade]] (NICCT) states that there are about 25,000 Indians or persons of Indian origin, excluding the Surinamese Hindustanis.<ref>[https://www.nicct.nl/wp-content/uploads/Growing-Indian-Community-in-the-Netherlands.pdf NICCT: Growing Indian Community in The Netherlands].</ref>

== Notable people ==
* [[Rattan Chadha]], businessman
* [[Anice Das]], speed skater
* [[Tanja Jadnanansing]], politician
* [[Ram Labhaya Lakhina]], entrepreneur and community leader
* [[Mangesh Panchal]], cricketer
* [[Anil Ramdas]], columnist
* [[Tara Singh Varma]], politician

== See also ==

* [[India–Netherlands relations]]
* [[Hinduism in the Netherlands]]
* [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|Indian diaspora]]
* [[Indo-Surinamese]]

== References ==

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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030417123000/http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter11.pdf Indian Diaspora in Netherlands]

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