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	In 1857, three thousand East Indians migrated from ] to Belize, 382 of whom were originally born in India. However, they came here as free East Indians, due to the expiration of their contracts in Jamaica.
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	The sizeable community of East Indians is traditionally ] their ancestors came to Belize as ]s in the 1880s to work on ] ]s.

	Some of these East Indians were also ]s.

	The ] in Belize consists only of PIOs (People of Indian Origin) as there are no restrictions here to the acquisition of local citizenship. Most of them had gone there in the 1950s, when Belize was still a British colony. They subsequently invited some of their relatives, as well as some of their employees, to join them from India. The community is comprised almost entirely of ] and so there are few differences among them. They are mostly retail traders and are well accepted. They have little interest in local politics, but their economic strength assures them an influential position in Belize.

	The PIOs maintain close and regular contact with India through frequent trips to visit friends and relatives back home. Some of these visits are connected with their quest for Indian brides for their children. As in all other countries of Indian settlement, Indian music and Hindi films are popular here and have been useful in nurturing friendly relations with the local people.

	In addition to the community described above, there is a fairly large group of persons who
	trace their origin to India. These persons live in villages scattered all over Belize. Like the indentured Indian who founded the Indian community in the ], the ancestors of those persons had reached Belize in the 19th century as cane cutters. As they were a small group, they intermarried with the local people and lost their language and original religion. However, they are still identifiable through their physiognomy and are known as 'Hindus'. They live in reasonably compact rural communities and number between 10 to 15 thousand, which is more than 5% of the population of Belize.

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