Little India, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Little India n.

[c.1940s a largely residential area in which many who had retired from colonial posts in India lived; followed by later immigrants]

Bayswater, West London.

2002

(ref. 1950s) L. Pizzichini Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 133: There was a reason for my grandfather’s new black shirt. ‘Little India’ was already home to an intriguing mix of Russian-Polish Jews, Cypriots and Maltese.