The city of Leicester in the English East Midlands has developed a reputation, over many decades, as a location that has welcomed and safely housed and settled people from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures. Indeed, one street in Leicester, Narborough Road, has often been described as the most diverse in England.
In the 1951 census, just 624 people with a South Asian heritage were recorded as living in Leicester. By 1971, there were 20,190 people of South Asian heritage living in the city. Forty years later, in 2021, the South Asian and other minority ethnic populations had grown rapidly, and white British was no longer the majority group in the city.
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