if you mean like that roots manuva and ty album (cant remember what else was on that album right now), that was around the time when everyone in hip hop and R&B was sampling middle eastern and south asian sounds (timbo/missy, truth hurts, erick sermon etc etc)... its more desi beats than bhangra really (though theres overlaps there too).
Well going through the track listening, the specific tunes that I was referring to were as follows:
Tubby T - Ready She Ready (2003)
Apache Indian - Chok There, Bombay remix (1993)
Jay Sean, Juggy D & Rishi Rich - Dance With You, Diwali remix (2003)
Shizzle - Rotate Dem (2006)
Suncycle - Somebody (2004)
Blackout JA & Marley - Hot Show (2004)
So there's quite a significant time-span covered, but the majority of the tracks are fairly recent. It could well be desi elements that are being used - but I will admit here that I know next to nothing about desi, so couldn't tell you either way.
Also, this is purely based on my personal response as I listen to them, so if someone were to point out in response to a track on the list 'but that's straight-up dancehall', 'that one's just pure desi' and so on, you may well right, but to my (largely untrained) ears I could aspects of fusion or communication going on between JA and modern Asian elements.