Some comment from Jimmy Perry on this topic back from 2003.
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Why do you think the sitcom is regarded as racist? "Because of ignorance. It's not the British Asians who call the show racist. They called - and still call it - 'our programme'. It was BBC executives who'd never been to India who thought it was racist." In his autobiography, Perry says that he and Croft were trying to explain why so many Asians were living in the UK and how we became a multiracial society. "I think as regards racism it's marvellous," he says.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...stuartjeffries