A study by a UK-based think tank showed that British-Indians are one of the highest-performing ethnic groups in terms of education and employment in the UK.

The study ‘A Portrait of Modern Britain Ethnicity and Religion’ published on Monday also claimed that Indians form the highest concentrated ethnic group in the UK.

“The ethnic group with the highest concentration of professional workers was Indian – with British Indians also having the highest rate of home ownership – with 71% living in a property which is either owned outright or owned with a mortgage/loan or shared ownership,” according to the report.

As per the study, “The diversity contained with the term ‘ethnic minority’ is now so broad – both within each minority and between minorities – that considering ethnic minorities as a monolithic group for public policy purposes is now increasingly meaningless.”

According to the 2021 Census data, over one in three Indian-heritage people living in England and Wales are based in London (35.2%).

A total of 56% of respondents believed that “relationship with family members was key to helping them towards achieving their successes in life”.

Reflecting on the category of ‘South Asians’,  the study says, “This category do not only serve to mask over noteworthy economic and social disparities between Britain’s Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis – but also mean that very real forms of diversity within these sizeable groupings at times go unrecognised.”

The study analysed 2021 Census data and surveyed a nationally representative sample of 2,000 people of all ethnicities, alongside ‘booster’ samples of 1400 ethnic minority respondents, 200 each from the Black African, Black Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Mixed-Race ethnic groups.

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