Indian Restaurants In The Netherlands

The Netherlands has a wide range of Indian restaurants with scrumptious food and the perfect hospitality. Restaurant Balraj opened in 1977, making it to one of the first Indian restaurant in the Netherlands. Mayur restaurant opened in Amsterdam in 1981 and introduced traditional North Indian dishes to the Netherlands. Restaurant Maharani opened in 1982, making it the first Indian restaurant in The Hague.

Restaurantes Indios en los Países Bajos

After the abolition of slavery in the Dutch colony of Suriname, the Dutch government signed a treaty with the United Kingdom on the recruitment of contract workers. Indians began migrating to Suriname in 1873 from what was then British India as indentured labourers, mostly from the modern-day Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and the surrounding regions.
Up until the independence of Suriname in 1975, all the Indo-Surinamese were formally part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and thus owned a Dutch passport. After the independence a significant portion of the Indo-Surinamese population migrated to the Netherlands, thereby retaining their Dutch passport. Currently there are more than 120,000 Indo-Surinamese living in the Netherlands, of which the majority, about 50,000, in The Hague and surroundings.
Indo-Surinamese are also known in both the Netherlands and Suriname by the Dutch term Hindoestanen, derived from the word Hindustani, lit., “someone from Hindustan”. Hence, when Indians migrated to Suriname they were referred to as Hindustanis, people of Indian origin.

Indische Restaurants in den Niederlanden

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Индийские рестораны в Нидерландах

In 2017, 8,630 Indians immigrated to the Netherlands, making them the second largest immigrant group after the Syrians that year. Most of them were highly skilled migrants working in information technology and information services. Moreover, the number of Indians who came to study in the Netherlands were more than tripled: from 425 migrant students in 2012 to 1,400 migrant students in 2017. In 2019, 6,322 Indians immigrated to the Netherlands. Nevertheless, Indian migrants often stayed in the Netherlands temporarily, as about 45% left the country within six years.

Indiase Restaurants in Nederland

Les Restaurants Indiens aux Pays-Bas

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Restoran India di Belanda

In 2001 the High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora estimated the population of PIO’s and Indian citizens at 215,000. According to the Dutch governmental institution Statistics Netherlands (CBS), in January 2016, 32,682 people had their origin from immigrants from India. The Embassy of India states that the Netherlands has the “second largest population of people of Indian origin in Europe (next only to UK)” and that it is “home to about 220,000 Indian and Surinamese Hindustani Diaspora. The Netherlands India Chamber of Commerce & Trade (NICCT) states there are about 25,000 Indians or persons of Indian origin, excluding the Surinamese Hindustanis.