There are reportedly a quarter of a million Patels in the country
"I thought I was going to be introduced to loads of girls and basically be asked, 'who do you like?'" It didn't quite work out that way, but he was eventually fixed up thanks to what he described as a "complex family web of auntie's best friend's first cousin's in-laws", she quotes Bobby Patel as saying.
Jenkins concludes that although half of Britain's Patels married someone with the same name, "Western ways are intruding".
In Bobby Patel's words, "In my family it's Patel to Patel, but for my younger brother it could be Patel to
a blonde."
And in Leeds, Yorkshire, Ramesh and Jashu have five children, three of who are married, but not to Patels.
Typically they are unconcerned so long as they are happy.
