A majority of France's minority ethnic Indian community originate from
Chandernagor of
West Bengal and
Puducherry, the two former
French colonies in India, mostly comprising
Bengalis (from Chandernagor),
Tamils, Malayalis as well as
Telugus (from Pondicherry). Later arrivals to
mainland France were mostly
Gujaratis,
Sindhis,
Konkanis,
Punjabis, a later wave of
Keralites from Kerala state in South India (ethnolinguistically similar with those migrated from
Karaikal district, Pondicherry) and also twice-migrant
Indians from
Mauritius (Biharis, Telugus, Marathis and Tamils),
French Guiana (Tamils, Malayalis and Telugus),
Guadeloupe (mostly Tamils),
Seychelles (Tamils, Gujaratis and Biharis),
Réunion (Tamils, Telugus and Gujaratis),
Martinique (Tamils, Telugus, Punjabis, Gujaratis and Sindhis) and
Madagascar (mostly Gujaratis). ==Notable people==