South Asians in the United Kingdom

There are approximately 5 million people of South Asian heritage in the UK, or 7.5% of the British population.

According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, there are 1,927,150 people of Indian/British Indian ethnicity (2.9%), 1,662,286 people of Pakistani /British Pakistani ethnicity (2.5%), 651,834 people of Bangladeshi/ British Bangladeshi ethnicity (1.0%), and an estimated further 700,000 from other South Asian heritage backgrounds.{{cite web|url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/bulletins/ethnicgroupenglandandwales/census2021|title=Ethnic group, England and Wales: Census 2021|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=29 November 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/media/trbdxzme/scotland-s-census-2022-ethnic-group-national-identity-language-and-religion-chart-data.xlsx |title=Scotland's Census 2022 - Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion - Chart data |author= |date=21 May 2024 |website=Scotland's Census |publisher=National Records of Scotland |access-date=21 May 2024 }} [https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/search-the-census#/search-by Alternative URL] 'Search data by location' > 'All of Scotland' > 'Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion' > 'Ethnic Group'{{cite web|url=https://www.nisra.gov.uk/system/files/statistics/census-2021-ms-b01.xlsx|title=MS-B01: Ethnic group|publisher=Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency|date= 22 September 2022|accessdate=7 January 2023}}

South Asians in the UK are represented by many different ethnic groups native to the region of South Asia. The BBC has frequently described them as South Asian groups, or South Asian ethnic groups, due to the diversity of ethnic and ethnolinguistic groupings that might be considered as South Asian people.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56944739|date=1 May 2021|title=South Asians in UK at greater risk from Covid|publisher=BBC|quote=According to the most recent 2011 census, 21% of South Asian groups live in multigenerational households, compared with about 7% of white groups. }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/health-29847644|date=1 November 2014|title=Cancer awareness 'low in black and South Asian groups'|publisher=BBC}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/creativediversity/nuance-in-bame/indian|title=BAME We're Not the Same: Indian |publisher=BBC|quote=Note: Indian and British Indian communities are vastly different from Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi and other ‘South Asian’ groups. We must be mindful and recognise these differences.}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-55299653/page/4|title='It's not over' warning as London heads for tier 3|date=14 December 2020|publisher=BBC|quote=The Office for National Statistics has been investigating why ... South Asian ethnic groups in the UK have been particularly badly affected.}}

Various British institutions consider there to be eight South Asian sovereign states. The London School of Economics's South Asia Centre describes its academic objective as "Unravelling South Asia — Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — to the World."{{Cite web|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-centre|title=South Asia Centre|publisher=London School of Economics|quote=Unravelling South Asia — Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — to the World.}} The Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth (a UK Government cabinet office) covers the Asian subregion, with the junior position also representative as the Minister for Afghanistan.{{Cite news|url=https://news.sky.com/story/minister-for-afghanistan-was-on-staycation-holiday-as-kabul-fell-sky-news-understands-12386808|date=21 August 2021|title=Minister for Afghanistan was on staycation holiday as Kabul fell, Sky News understands|publisher=Sky News|quote=The minister for Afghanistan was also on holiday last week as Kabul fell, Sky News has learnt. Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, the minister of state directly responsible for South Asia, was on leave until Sunday}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/intensifying-international-support-for-the-peace-process-in-afghanistan|date=22 June 2021|title=Intensifying international support for the peace process in Afghanistan|publisher=Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office|quote=Statement by Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon}}

South Asian peoples began arriving in cities in Britain, such as London, around the mid-17th century. The most significant period of migration from South Asia, however, was in the middle of the 20th century.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210907-londons-most-authentic-indian-food|title='This unassuming street in north London is the city's original "Little India" – and nowhere else captures the original South Asian experience quite like it|first=Meera|last=Dattani|date=8 September 2021|publisher=BBC|quote=South Asians have lived in London since the mid-17th Century, when ships of the colonial East India Company docked in the capital. However, most came in the middle of the 20th Century.}} Between 1870 and 1950, South Asians had an impact on several areas of British society, including minority rights, war, and representation.{{cite book|title=South Asians and the shaping of Britain, 1870–1950|first1=Rehana |last1=Ahmed |first2=Sumita|last2=Mukherjee|first3=Florian|last3=Stadtler|editor-first=Ruvani |editor-last=Ranasinha |date=2019|isbn=978-0719085147|publisher=Manchester University Press}}

Many South Asians came from ships and boats as servants and maids for the more rich. English commerce on the Indian subcontinent brought some of these people to England and four South Asian men in London answered the call for sailors for the first English East India Company fleet to Asia. Their Portuguese names identifies them as mixed-race Portuguese Luso-Asians.{{cite book|last1=Fisher|first1=Michael H. |last2=Lahiri|first2=Shompa |last3=Thandi|first3= Shnider |title=A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-Continent|year=2007|place=Oxford, UK|pages=6–8|isbn=978-1-84645-008-2}} Since the 17th century, the East India Company employed thousands of South Asian lascars, scholars and workers (who were mostly Bengali or Muslim) mainly to work on British ships and ports around the world.

The first group of South Asians to migrate in notable numbers, in the 18th century, were lascars (sailors) recruited from the Indian subcontinent (largely from the Bengal region) to work for the British East India Company, with some choosing to settle down in Britain after either being abandoned by their captains or choosing to desert from their positions of employment. Many were unable to find jobs and were described in letters as "miserable objects", who were often "shivering and starving in the streets".{{Cite web|title = The Goan community of London - Port communities|url = http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.50/chapterId/739/The-Goan-community-of-London.html |website=portcities.org.uk |access-date = 23 February 2016}}{{Cite book|title = Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kFykCgAAQBAJ|publisher = Routledge|date = 30 September 2015|isbn = 978-1-317-31600-8|first = Preeti|last = Nijhar}} Letters to newspapers in 1785 talked of "the number of miserable objects, Lascars, … shivering and starving in the streets".{{Cite web|title = LMA Learning Zone > schooLMAte > Black and Asian Londoners > Timeline|url = http://www.learningzone.cityoflondon.gov.uk/schoolmate/Bal/sm_bal_timeline_detail.asp?ID=24|website = learningzone.cityoflondon.gov.uk|access-date = 23 February 2016|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160307001450/http://www.learningzone.cityoflondon.gov.uk/schoolmate/Bal/sm_bal_timeline_detail.asp?ID=24|archive-date = 7 March 2016}} Some lascars took British wives, and some converted to Anglican Christianity (at least nominally) in order to marry,{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&q=marry+these+women&pg=PA52|title = Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Traveller and Settler in Britain, 1600–1857|isbn = 978-81-7824-154-8|last = Fisher|first = Michael H.|year = 2006| publisher=Orient Blackswan }} possibly due to a lack of South Asian women in Britain at the time.{{Cite book|title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Traveller and Settler in Britain, 1600–1857|first=Michael H.|last=Fisher|year=2006|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-7824-154-8|pages=111–9, 129–30, 140, 154–9, 160–8, 172, 181|quote=Lists of names of lascars suggest a single lascar crew might include Muslims, Catholic and Protestant Christians (of part Portuguese or other European descent), Parsis, Armenians, and/or Hindus ... In contrast, identities like Indian, Chinese, Arab, or Malay apparently remained potent on board ship and in Britain ... Tensions around lascars in London especially increased from the fall 1813 season onwards. The particularly large number of Asian seamen arriving that year exacerbated conflicts aboard ship, inside the depot, and with the surrounding British community ... In September 1813 alone, Malay sailors fought Arabs, killing one; Chinese tongs fought each other}} Most Indians during this period would visit or reside in Britain temporarily, returning to India after months or several years, bringing back knowledge about Britain in the process.{{Cite book|first=Michael H.|last=Fisher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&q=some+settled|title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Traveller and Settler in Britain, 1600–1857|year=2006|page=1|publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-7824-154-8}} 38 lascars were reported arriving in British ports in 1760.{{cite web|url=http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/lascar_lives_and_the_east_india_company.page|title=Research project: Lascar Lives|publisher=University of Southampton|website=southampton.ac.uk|access-date=3 June 2020}}{{Cite book|title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Traveller and Settler in Britain, 1600–1857|first=Michael H.|last=Fisher|year=2006|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-7824-154-8|pages=111–9, 129–30, 140, 154–6, 160–8, 181}}

Between 1600 and 1857, some 20-40,000 Indian men and women of all social classes had travelled to Britain, the majority of them being seamen working on ships.{{Cite journal|title=Excluding and Including 'Natives of India': Early-Nineteenth-Century British-Indian Race Relations in Britain|first=Michael H.|last=Fisher|journal=Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East|volume=27|issue=2|year=2007|pages=303–314 [304–5]|doi=10.1215/1089201x-2007-007|s2cid=146613125 }} Lascars lodged in British ports in between voyages.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/lr/2003/01/05/stories/2003010500200300.htm|title=The lascars' lot|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107035325/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/lr/2003/01/05/stories/2003010500200300.htm|archive-date=7 November 2015|newspaper=The Hindu|date=5 January 2003}} Most Indians during this period would visit or reside in Britain temporarily, returning to India after months or several years, bringing back knowledge about Britain in the process.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&q=settled|title=Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600 ...|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902230738/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Counterflows+to+Colonialism:+Indian+Traveller+and+Settler+in+Britain+1600-1857.+Orient+Blackswan.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwib1biOuITWAhUsKMAKHVVmCCgQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=settled&f=false|archive-date=2 September 2017|isbn=9788178241548|year=2006|last1=Fisher|first1=Michael Herbert|publisher=Orient Blackswan }}

One of the most famous early Indian immigrants to Britain was Sake Dean Mahomet, a captain of the British East India Company and a native of Patna in the Indian state of Bihar.{{cite journal |last1=Narain |first1=Mona |title=Dean Mahomet's "Travels", Border Crossings, and the Narrative of Alterity |journal=Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 |date=2009 |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=693–716|doi=10.1353/sel.0.0070 |jstor=40467318 |s2cid=162301711 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40467318|url-access=subscription }}

Due to the majority being lascars, the earliest Muslim communities were found in port towns, found living in barracks, Christian charity homes and hostels. The first and most frequent South Asian travelers to Britain were Christian Indians and those of European-Asian mixed-race descent. For Muslim Indians considerations about how their dietary and religious practices would alienate them from society at large were brought into question but these considerations were often outweighed by economic opportunities. Those that stayed often adopted British customs, dress and diet.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iPHqigUD6FUC&q=indian-european&pg=PA52|title = Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Traveller and Settler in Britain, 1600–1857|isbn = 978-81-7824-154-8|last = Fisher|first = Michael H.|year = 2006}} Naval cooks also came, many of them from the Sylhet Division of what is now Bangladesh. One of the most famous early Muslim immigrants to England was Sake Dean Mahomed, a captain of the British East India Company who in 1810 founded London's first Indian restaurant, the Hindoostane Coffee House. He is also reputed for introducing shampoo and therapeutic massage to the United Kingdom.{{cite web|title=Curry house founder is honoured|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4290124.stm|publisher=BBC|access-date=5 July 2014|date=29 September 2005}} In 1784 he migrated to Ireland where he fell in love with a woman called Jane Daly. He converted to Anglicanism in order to marry her, as it was illegal at the time for non-Protestants to marry Protestants. They later moved to Brighton.{{Cite web|title = The Travels of Dean Mahomet|url = http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4h4nb20n&chunk.id=ch3&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch3&brand=eschol;query=jane#1|website = publishing.cdlib.org|access-date = 24 February 2016}}

After reports of lascars suffering from poverty made their way to the ear of the general public, the East India Company responded by making lodgings available for them, but no checks were kept on the boarding houses and barracks they provided to the lascars. Many lascars found that their new living accommodations were often of a poor quality, and reports of Lascars being mistreated were submitted to the Society for the Protection of Asiatic Sailors, which was founded in 1814.

In 1842, the Church Missionary Society reported on the dire "state of the Lascars in London"{{Cite book|title = Coolies, Capital and Colonialism: Studies in Indian Labour History|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oy67XQk5cukC|publisher = Cambridge University Press|date = 1 January 2006|isbn = 978-0-521-69974-7|first1 = Rana P.|last1 = Behal|first2 = Marcel van der|last2 = Linden}} it was reported in the winter of 1850, 40 Asian men, also known as 'sons of India', were found dead of cold and hunger on the streets of London. Shortly after these reports evangelical Christians proposed the construction of a charity house and gathered £15,000 in assistance of the Lascars. In 1856 the Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders was opened in Commercial Road, Limehouse under the manager Lieutenant-Colonel R. Marsh Hughes.{{Cite web|title = Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders {{!}} Making Britain|url = http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/strangers-home-asiatics-africans-and-south-sea-islanders|website = open.ac.uk|access-date = 23 February 2016}}

The Navigation Act 1660 restricted the employment of non-English sailors to a quarter of the crew on returning East India Company ships. Baptism records in East Greenwich suggest that young Indians from the Malabar Coast were being recruited as servants at the end of the 17th century, and records of the EIC also suggest that Indo-Portuguese cooks from Goa were retained by captains from voyage to voyage. In 1797, 13 were buried in the parish of St Nicholas at Deptford.

It is estimated 8,000 Indians (a large proportion being lascar sailors) lived in Britain permanently prior to the 1950s. Although, the comparatively few lascars that gained work often opened shops and helped initiate social and political community associations.{{Cite book|title = Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-xCUAgAAQBAJ&q=8%252C000%2520indians%2520lascar&pg=PA121|publisher = Routledge|date = 3 January 2014|isbn = 978-1-136-01824-4|first1 = Joya|last1 = Chatterji|first2 = David|last2 = Washbrook}} Indians were less likely to settle permanently because of wage differentials.{{Cite book|title = Asians In Britain: 400 Years of History|last = Visram|first=Rozina |year = 2002|pages = 254–269}}{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oy67XQk5cukC&q=8%2C000&pg=PA114|title = Coolies, Capital and Colonialism: Studies in Indian Labour History|isbn = 978-0-521-69974-7|last1 = Behal|first1 = Rana P.|last2 = Linden|first2 = Marcel van der|year = 2006| publisher=Cambridge University Press }} Due to the majority of early South Asian immigrants being lascars, the earliest South Asian communities were found in port towns.

The small, often transitory presence of Lascars continued into the 1930s, with the Port of London Authority mentioning Lascars in a February 1931 article writing that "Although appearing so out of place in the East End, they are well able to look after themselves, being regular seamen who came to the Docks time after time and have learnt a little English and know how to buy what they want.{{Cite web|last =Jones |first =J. P.|url = http://www.lascars.co.uk/plafeb1931.html|title = Lascars in the Port of London |date =February 1931|work=The P.L.A. Monthly|via=lascars.co.uk|access-date =3 June 2020}}

In 1932, the Indian National Congress survey of 'all Indians outside India' estimated that there were 7,128 Indians in the United Kingdom.{{Cite book|last = Visram|first = Rozina|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-5pGCgAAQBAJ&q=estimated+that+there&pg=PT138|title = Ayahs, Lascars and Princes: The Story of Indians in Britain 1700–1947|date = 30 July 2015|publisher =Routledge |isbn = 978-1-317-41533-6}} It is estimated that from 1800 to 1945, 20,000 South Asians emigrated to Britain.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHB_BAAAQBAJ&q=estimated&pg=PA229|title=An Immigration History of Britain: Multicultural Racism Since 1800|last=Panayi|first=Panikos|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-86423-3|date=11 September 2014}}

There was further significant migration after World War II, particularly from the Punjab in India, Mirpur in Pakistan and the Sylhet region of Bangladesh.https://www.striking-women.org/module/map-major-south-asian-migration-flows/post-1947-migration-uk-india-bangladesh-pakistan-and The Commonwealth Immigrants Act was passed in 1962 and restricted this.

In 2020, South Asian Heritage Month was set up as an annual awareness month by co-founders Jasvir Singh (barrister) and Dr Binita Kane to celebrate South Asian identity in the UK and beyond. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/black-history-month-pakistan-bhutan-afghanistan-nepal-b2376974.html The 2020 George Floyd protests had sparked solidarity and support from British South Asians in support of black British protest movements.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/09/daytimers-south-asian-dance-music-collective|title=Dance music collective Daytimers: 'Brownness isn't a hype – it's who we are'|first=Ciaran|last=Thapar|date=9 September 2021|work=The Guardian|quote=Conversations about racial equality and decolonising the public sphere have become louder since George Floyd’s death last year. These have motivated many young British south Asians to support Black protest movements}} In 2021, South Asian campaigners petitioned the Department for Education to include the Partition of India in the UK's national curriculum.{{Cite news|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/6/british-south-asians-partition-history-school-curriculum|title=UK South Asians push for partition history in school curriculum|first=Shaistha|last=Khan|date=6 August 2021|work=Al Jazeera|quote=As per the 2001 census in the UK, South Asians are the largest minority group, accounting for 50 percent of all ethnic minorities in England and Wales.}}

The figures below represent data collected for the 2021 United Kingdom census with the country as a reported birthplace recorded (i.e. does not include British born people of South Asian origin). The census in Scotland was delayed for a year and took place in 2022.{{cite news|url=https://www.crer.org.uk/blog/march-21st-is-census-day-but-scotland-will-have-to-wait|title=March 21st is Census day - but Scotland will have to wait|first=Kirsty|last=McNeill|publisher=Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights|date=18 March 2021|accessdate=26 March 2023}}

In 2020, Amar Cymru, or My Wales, was established in consultation with Football Association of Wales to give the group a larger voice over the Wales national football team and provide stadium experiences for South Asians in Wales.{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/wales-south-asian-fans-estonia-b1915087.html|title=Wales vs Estonia: New South Asian fans' group ready to roar on Gareth Bale and co in Cardiff|date=6 September 2021|work=The Independent|quote=Amar Cymru has been launched to give the South Asian community a voice in the national team, with the group’s formation fully backed by the Football Association of Wales.}}

In 2021, West Ham United became the first Premier League football club to specifically appoint a South Asian academy mentor to engage with the "more than 325,000 South Asians" living in the "London Boroughs of Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Barking and Dagenham and Havering".{{Cite news|url=https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2021/september/03-september/west-ham-united-strengthen-links-south-asian-communities|title=West Ham United strengthen links with South Asian communities with creation of Academy Link Mentor role|date=3 September 2021|work=West Ham United}} England coach Gareth Southgate has spoken of a need for more South Asians in the sport nationally.{{Cite news|url=https://www.espn.co.uk/football/england-eng/story/4440247/england-boss-gareth-southgate-wants-more-effort-to-find-south-asian-players|title=England boss Gareth Southgate wants more effort to find South Asian players|date=28 July 2021|work=ESPN|quote=Southgate said British South Asians have faced serious challenges when attempting to enter the professional game.}} In 2022, figures from the Professional Footballers' Association highlighted this further with the findings that 0.45 percent of academy players were South Asian.{{Cite news|url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12557362/british-south-asian-representation-in-english-football-revealed-as-pfa-celebrates-aims-project-anniversary|title=British South Asian representation in English football revealed as PFA celebrates AIMS project anniversary|date=9 March 2022|work=Sky Sports News|quote=There are 99 footballers at 44 academies across the country but British South Asian player representation at elite senior level remains a pressing issue, with the latest PFA figures indicating a mere 0.45 percent of the total pool of professional footballers hail from the community.}}

In 2021, Bristol City F.C. signed their first-ever South Asian British player.{{Cite news|url=https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-08-02/bristol-city-sign-first-ever-british-south-asian-player-in-clubs-history|title=Bristol City sign first-ever British-South Asian player in club's history|date=2 August 2021|work=ITV News|quote=Bristol City have made history by signing the club’s first ever British player with South Asian heritage.}}

In 2021, the England and Wales Cricket Board found that state-educated South Asian Britons were 34 times less likely to become professional cricketers than privately educated players from the White British census ethnic group.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/20/young-british-asian-cricketers-research|title=White British cricketers from private schools 34 times more likely than young Asians to reach elite level|date=20 November 2021|work=The Guardian|quote=Privately educated white British players are 34 times more likely to become professional cricketers than state-educated British South Asians, according to academic research that is likely to invite further investigation of the game’s treatment of ethnic minorities.}}

In 2018, research from the University of Surrey showed that South Asian people in Britain had low-levels of Vitamin D intake in a national context.{{Cite news|url=https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/concern-over-low-vitamin-d-intakes-among-uk-south-asians|title=Concern over low vitamin D intakes among UK South Asians|date=25 June 2018|publisher=University of Surrey}}

In the UK, women of South Asian heritage are the least likely to attend breast cancer screening. Research is still needed to identify specific barriers for the different South Asian communities. For example, a study showed that British-Pakistani women faced cultural and language barriers and were not aware that breast screening takes place in a female-only environment.{{Cite journal |date=2020-09-15 |title=Cultural and language barriers need to be addressed for British-Pakistani women to benefit fully from breast screening |url=https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/cultural-and-language-barriers-need-to-be-addressed-for-british-pakistani-women-to-benefit-fully-from-breast-screening/ |journal=NIHR Evidence |type=Plain English summary |language=en |doi=10.3310/alert_41135|s2cid=241324844 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Woof |first1=Victoria G |last2=Ruane |first2=Helen |last3=Ulph |first3=Fiona |last4=French |first4=David P |last5=Qureshi |first5=Nadeem |last6=Khan |first6=Nasaim |last7=Evans |first7=D Gareth |last8=Donnelly |first8=Louise S |date=2019-12-02 |title=Engagement barriers and service inequities in the NHS Breast Screening Programme: Views from British-Pakistani women |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0969141319887405 |journal=Journal of Medical Screening |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=130–137 |doi=10.1177/0969141319887405 |issn=0969-1413 |pmc=7645618 |pmid=31791172}}{{Cite journal |last1=Woof |first1=Victoria G. |last2=Ruane |first2=Helen |last3=French |first3=David P. |last4=Ulph |first4=Fiona |last5=Qureshi |first5=Nadeem |last6=Khan |first6=Nasaim |last7=Evans |first7=D. Gareth |last8=Donnelly |first8=Louise S. |date=2020-05-20 |title=The introduction of risk stratified screening into the NHS breast screening Programme: views from British-Pakistani women |journal=BMC Cancer |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=452 |doi=10.1186/s12885-020-06959-2 |issn=1471-2407 |pmc=7240981 |pmid=32434564 |doi-access=free }}

A 2020 study found that UK residents of South Asian heritage were the most likely group to die from Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/19/south-asians-in-uk-most-likely-to-die-of-covid-19-study-finds|title=South Asians in Britain most likely to die in hospital of Covid-19, study finds|first= Haroon|last= Siddique|date=19 June 2020|work=The Guardian|quote=People of south Asian heritage are the most likely in Great Britain to die after being admitted to hospital for Covid-19}} The following year, a study published in The Lancet suggested that South Asians were at the greatest risk of infection, hospitalisation or death from the second wave of the pandemic when compared with other ethnic groups in Britain.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56944739|title=South Asians in UK at greater risk from Covid|author= |date=1 May 2021|work=BBC|quote=People from a South Asian background were at even greater risk of infection, hospitalisation and death in the second wave of Covid than the first, compared with other ethnic groups}}

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