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      • Tiretta Bazaar also known as Kolkata’s Mini Chinatown, is a blend of Indo-Chinese culture. The bazaar is the only Chinatown in India. Kolkata has been home to the Chinese since the early 19th century.
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  2. Tiretta Bazaar, also known as Chinatown, [1][2][3] is a neighborhood near Lalbazar in Central Kolkata. It is usually called Old China Market. The locality was once home to 20,000 ethnic Chinese Indian nationals, but now the population has dropped to approximately 2,000. [4]

  3. Tiretta Bazaar also known as Kolkata’s Mini Chinatown, is a blend of Indo-Chinese culture. The bazaar is the only Chinatown in India. Kolkata has been home to the Chinese since the early 19th century.

    • Is Tiretta Bazaar India's only China Town?1
    • Is Tiretta Bazaar India's only China Town?2
    • Is Tiretta Bazaar India's only China Town?3
    • Is Tiretta Bazaar India's only China Town?4
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  4. Jun 8, 2021 · But surprisingly enough, Tiretta Bazaar is Indias only China Town, a market place that has been a hotplate of cultural amalgamation and trade for the past two centuries. The Chinese population in this region traces its origins back to when Kolkata was once the capital of the British Empire in India.

  5. Indias First Chinatown. In the heart of the sprawling metropolis of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) lies Old China Town in Tiretta Bazaar. It is testimony to the pluralistic society that flourished in the former British capital of India over the last two centuries.

  6. Dec 20, 2019 · Tangra may be the most well-known Chinatown in India, but Kolkata’s Tiretta Bazaar has the distinction of being the very first. The city, after all, is one of the few places in the world that can boast of having not one, but two distinct Chinatowns.

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  7. Jan 13, 2024 · Kolkata: Efforts by heritage enthusiasts and conservationists in restoring and preserving Kolkata’s Old Chinatown at Tiretta Bazar — nestled in the heart of the city’s business district — received a fillip on Friday with the World Monument Fund (WMF) placing the precinct on its endangered heritage watchlist.

  8. Mar 2, 2022 · Tiretta Bazaar: About the place. This place is called Indias First Chinatown, and it began to assume “a Chinese identity” in the 18th century when Chinese sailors on Indo-China trade routes settled here and established their own rituals, traditions, architectural style, etc.