The indian community in wellington city: a geographical contribution to the study of assimilation

Abstract

The general purpose of this study has widened considerably as the thesis has progressed. Initially it was intended that the work would be a straight descriptive study of the Indian community in Wellington City. This would include an analysis of the group's degree of adaptation to New Zealand society, as well as attempting to account for this pattern of change. For two reasons this original framework has been substantially enlarged. First, a study of this kind has already been carried out amongst the Indians in Auckland City. Grimes (1957). It was felt that to repeat such a study in exactly the same form would be of little value. Secondly, due to the generosity of the Department of Statistics, statistics for the Wellington Indian Community on an spatial basis were made available. Thus the writer was able to carry out a detailed statistical analysis of the ecological structure of the Indian Community in order to arrive at a more detailed and accurate description of the assimilation process.