Hinduism in Gibraltar

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Most of the Hindus in Gibraltar are of East Indian descent. According to 2000 census Hindus numbered 491 and made up 1.79% of the population of Gibraltar, making it the area with the highest percentage of Hindus in all of Europe.^{[citation needed]}

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• Haller, Dieter: Let it Flow – Economy, Spirituality and Gender in the Sindhi Network. Anthropological Theory 2005 5: 154-175

• Haller, Dieter: Space and Ethnicity in Two Merchant Diasporas: a Comparison of the Sindhis and the Jews of Gibraltar, in: GLOBAL NETWORKS: a journal of transnational affairs 2003, Vol 3. No 1: 75-96

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