Hindi is spoken by over four hundred and ninety million people in the world today. The different areas where this language is spoken in the UK includes big cities of England like Birmingham, London and Manchester, there are also significant numbers in the northern millls towns like Bradford. Over a million people speak Hindi in the UK, the vast majority of people speak Hindi as a second langauage because most of them are second or third generation descendants of immigrants.Most of the forefathers of these immigrants arrived from the 1950's onwards and then that immiration source stopped in the 1970's. In the 1970's thousands of Asian people who were living in Uganda arrived in the UK after being expelled by Ida Amin.
In 1950 there were only six Indian resaurants in Britain, by 2004 it was estimated there was over 8000. The first recipe for curry in Britain appeared in a cookery book of 1747. Spices from Asia have been incorporated into British cooking for centuries i.e. nutmeg grated on to rice pudding, cinnamon sprinkled on cakes or pepper used to seaseon meats.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/
http://www.dayjob.com/content/hindi-language-205.htm
http://www.bl.uk/learning/resources/pdf/foodstories/rogersgodeeper.pdf
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