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British Indians are UK citizens with Indian roots: over two million people, the country's biggest visible ethnic minority, mostly of Punjabi and Gujarati descent. The article is a history of migration and settlement. It says nothing about sarees, weaves or drapes, and touches cloth only through migrants' work in England's textile mills and clothing trades.
- British Indians number over 2 million, the UK's largest visible ethnic minority.
- Most trace roots to Punjab and Gujarat, with smaller groups from Kerala and Bengal.
- Gujarati migrants worked in textile mills in Blackburn, Bolton, Preston and nearby towns.
- Sikh migrants set up businesses in east London's textile wholesale and clothing trade.
- The article gives no description of the saree, any weave, dye or drape.
Sarees in the United Kingdom
British Indians are UK citizens whose families came from India. The community numbers over two million and is the country's biggest visible ethnic minority, with most people tracing roots to Punjab and Gujarat and smaller groups from Kerala, Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. This article follows migration, not cloth. It opens with lascars, sailors on East India Company ships, and ayahs, nannies who came over with British families, then moves through students and nationalists, postwar labour recruitment, National Health Service staffing and the arrival of East African Asians. Sarees, weaves, dyes and drapes are not described anywhere in it. The only textile thread is employment: Gujaratis in the mill towns of northwest England and Sikhs in London's textile wholesale and manufacturing trades.
Weaving centres
The article names no Indian town for weaving. Its textile geography is English. Gujarati migrants found work in the mills of Blackburn, Dewsbury, Bolton, Lancaster, Manchester and Preston, all in the industrial northwest. Sikh families settled in east London, where cloth was bought and sold wholesale and where garments were made, and others moved west towards Heathrow and the factories around it. These places are recorded as sites of migrant labour and trade, not as centres of Indian handloom weaving, and the source does not link any of them to a particular cloth.
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