Indian Migration
The overwhelming majority of migrants from India were ethnic Tamil and from the British Madras Presidency. In 1947 they represented approximately 85 per cent of the total Indian population in Malaya and Singapore.
Read more about this topic: Malaysian Indian
Famous quotes containing the word indian:
“Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant and fluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)