Dear vishaalp1-ga,
The best data available is from the 2001 Census for Great Britain from
the Office for National Statistics.
"Hindus are the least likely of all the religious groups to have been
born in the UK, followed by Muslims and Buddhists. The majority within
each of these groups had been born outside the UK.
Less than four in ten Hindus (37 per cent) who were living in Great
Britain in 2001 had been born in the UK. A similar proportion had been
born in Asia (39 per cent), predominantly India (30 per cent), and 6
per cent had been born in Sri Lanka. A further 21 per cent of Hindus
had been born in Africa, reflecting the 1970s migration to the UK of
East African Asians, in particular from Kenya (10 per cent) and Uganda
(4 per cent)."
Source
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=958
"Population of Great Britain by religion April 2001:
Hindus: 558342 - comprising 1 per cent of the total population and 18
per cent of the non-Christian religious population."
Source
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=954
You can download the following from this page:
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Source
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=13209
There are several datasets which may interest you.
The data provides the following information:
Yorkshire and the Humber, Hindus: 15,797 (no data for South Yorkshire)
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Detailed ethnic group (Percentages): by religion, April 2001
Great Britain.
Hindus
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White British % 0.01
White Irish % 0.02
Other white % 0.09
Mixed % 0.86
Indian % 44.82
Pakistani % 0.08
Bangladeshi % 0.61
Other Asian % 26.34
Black Caribbean % 0.29
Black African % 0.21
Other Black % 0.36
Chinese % 0.07
Other Ethnic Group % 1.31
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Hindus: by country of birth, April 2001
Great Britain
Numbers Percentages
UK 208,840 37.40
Rest of Europe 2,355 0.42
Africa: (including) 119,072 21.33
Kenya 54,420 9.75
Uganda 24,854 4.45
Tanzania 13,542 2.43
Other Africa 26,256 4.70
Asia: (including) 218,156 39.07
India 169,735 30.40
Sri Lanka 33,691 6.03
Other Asia 14,730 2.64
North America 2,809 0.50
Other 7,110 1.27
Total 558,342 100.00
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From the geographical dataset you will be able to calculate the Hindu
population for England.
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