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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|none}} &lt;!-- &quot;none&quot; is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;[[Hinduism]]&#039;&#039;&#039; originally came to &#039;&#039;&#039;[[New Caledonia]]&#039;&#039;&#039; with [[Indian people|Indians]] who worked as indentured servants of [[Europe]]an settlers of the island. There are about 500 New Caledonians of Indian [[Tamil people|Tamil]] descent. They were known as [[Malabars|Malabar]] and originally arrived in the 19th century from other French Territories, namely [[Réunion]].&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.tamilnation.org/diaspora/newcaledonia.htm |title=Tamil Diaspora of New Caledonia|access-date=7 November 2009|website=Tamilnation.org}}{{dead link|date=September 2015}}&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> New Caledonia has several descendants of Tamils, whose parents intermarried with the local population in the 20th century. New Caledonia requires a special study since many Tamils went there as laborers and a report in a book published about 1919 states that of the Chinese, Indians and Javanese who colonized new Caledonia, the Indians gave satisfaction.{{clarify|date=September 2015}}{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[Demographics of New Caledonia]]<br /> *[[Demographics of Oceania]]<br /> *[[Outline of Oceania#Religion in Oceania|Religion in Oceania]]<br /> *[[History of the Jews in New Caledonia]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Hinduism in Oceania}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Hinduism by country|New Caledonia]]<br /> [[Category:Religion in New Caledonia]]<br /> [[Category:Hinduism in Oceania|New Caledonia]]</div>

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