{"id":10062,"date":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/16\/britain-s-changing-ethnic-map-thriving-hindus-in-british-suburbia\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","slug":"britain-s-changing-ethnic-map-thriving-hindus-in-british-suburbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/16\/britain-s-changing-ethnic-map-thriving-hindus-in-british-suburbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Changing Ethnic Map: Thriving Hindus in British Suburbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/apr\/10\/britains-changing-ethnic-map\/print\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, April 10, 2011: Any visitor to the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir could not fail to be awed. Everyone from Princess Diana to Jimmy Carter has paid a visit. On 27 October 2000 it broke a world record by serving 1,247 vegetarian dishes to mark the start of the Hindu new year.<\/p>\n<p>The temple is in suburban north-west London, in Neasden, where it nestles incongruously near rows of Edwardian terraces. The site was chosen partly because of the region&#8217;s large number of Hindus, many of whom arrived from Uganda after being expelled by Idi Amin in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>As Yogesh Patel, a spokesman for the temple, acknowledges, the suburb was attractive to Hindu migrants because of &#8220;better employment prospects &#8230; the choice of good schools and business opportunities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The temple, which has a highly successful independent school, is testimony to something significant happening in Britain, a shift that has been occurring largely without notice. Second- and third-generation migrant communities are on the move, driven by increasing affluence and aspiration. &#8220;We are seeing an emerging segment of dynamic young professionals, successful entrepreneurs and ambitious, resourceful wealth creators, all giving back to our country, enriching it economically, socially, culturally,&#8221; Patel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED KINGDOM, April 10, 2011: Any visitor to the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir could not fail to be awed. Everyone,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}