Malbars are an ethnic group of South Indian origin in Réunion a French island in the Southwest Indian Ocean estimated to number 180000. There are no official figures because the French government does not collect census data on ethnic groups.There have been people of South Indian origin on the island since the 17th century and those were mostly from Pondicherry.
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