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- India's first Chinese immigrant, Tong Ah Chew (Atchew, according to British records), arrived in Kolkata with loads of tea in 1778 and set up a sugar mill near the city. As an eastern port, Kolkata was the closest entry into India from China and East Asia, so this became India's only Chinese community.
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Feb 26, 2021 · But Kolkata has been home to an Indian Chinese community since the 18th century. The Chinese community in Kolkata was once thriving, with some estimates pegging its high at 70,000 people.
- Hamsini Hariharan
Kolkata, then known as Calcutta, was the capital of British India from 1772 to 1911. Although it was also geographically the easiest accessible metropolitan area from China by land, there were few Chinese people in Calcutta until the late British Raj era; Chinese immigrants choose to go to Burma instead.
Feb 15, 2021 · Kolkata is India’s only city that has a Chinatown. India has enjoyed a prolonged history of commercial and cultural links with mainland China. Consequently, there are records of large-scale migration in the 18th century primarily from provinces like Fujian, Guangdong, and Canton.
Aug 29, 2023 · The city of Kolkata, in India's eastern West Bengal state, has been home to an Indian-Chinese community since the 18th century. Some estimates suggest it was once home to as many as...
Mar 25, 2021 · Kolkata has long been home to India’s largest Chinese community. At its peak, when Calcutta (as it then was) was the capital of imperial India, it was home to 50,000 ethnic Chinese.
Sep 30, 2022 · At its peak, 20,000 ethnically Chinese people lived there. Now, however, there are only a few dozen. Kolkata’s Chinatown is at risk of all but disappearing, according to the World Monument Fund, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage sites.
