Orang India Malaysia | |
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Total population | |
2,019,600[1] 6.6% of the Malaysian population (2020)[1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
West coast of Peninsular Malaysia
(mostly in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Perak, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Kedah and Johor) Singapore (20,483 in 2010)[2] | |
Languages | |
Malaysian Tamil/Tamil (majority) • English • Malay • Manglish (creole) • Melayu Chetty • Other Indian languages such as Punjabi, Telugu, Malayalam and others | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Hinduism Minorities Christianity · Islam · Buddhism · Sikhism · Jainism · Zoroastrianism · Baháʼí | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Indian Singaporeans, Burmese Indians, Indian Indonesians, Malaysian Malayali, Chitty, Chindians, Indo-Caribbeans, Indians in South Africa, Indo-Fijians, Indo-Mauritians |
Malaysian Indians or Indo-Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Indian or South Asian ancestry. They now form the fourth-largest group in Malaysia, after the Malays, Chinese, and the indigenous groups of Malaysia. Most are descendants of those who migrated from India to British Malaya from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries.[3][4] Most Malaysian Indians are ethnic Tamils; smaller groups include the Malayalees, Telugus and Punjabis. Malaysian Indians form the fifth-largest community of Overseas Indians in the world.[5] In Malaysia, they represent the third-largest group, constituting 7% of the Malaysian population, after the ethnic Malays and the Chinese.[1] They are usually referred to simply as "Indians" in English, Orang India in Malay, "Yin du ren" in Chinese.
Malaysia's Indian population is notable for its class stratification, with a significant elite and a large low income group within its fold.[6][7] Malaysian Indians large percentage of professionals per capita by constituting 15.5% of Malaysia's professionals in 1999 has been reduced with substantial population close to 40% is now considered the B40 category.[8] [6] In the 1984 census, up to 38% of the nation's medical professional workforce consisted of Malaysian Indians, but this has been since been reduced.[8][9] In 1970, the per-capita income of Malaysian Indians was 76% higher than that of the Malay majority.[10] Despite attempts by the Malaysian government to redistribute wealth since the 1970s through institutionalized racial policy,[11][12] by 2005 Malaysian Indians still earned a 27% higher per capita income than that of the dominant Malay community.[10]
The ancestral root of about 80% of Malaysian Indians is in the British Empire's Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala).
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