Chinese people in India

Chinese people in India
Sino-Indians
印度華人/印度华人
Total population
85,000 Tibetan community (2018)
150,000 Tibetan community (2011)[1]

2,000 Chinese people in Kolkata (2013)[2] 189,000 including Chinese of Tibetan and Indian ancestry (0.01%, 2005)[3]

5,000–7,000 Chinese expatriates (2015)[4]
Regions with significant populations
Chinese community: Assam, Kolkata, Mumbai
Chinese expatriates: Mumbai, Gurgaon, Bangalore[4]
Languages
English, Assamese,[5][6] Tibetan, Amdo Tibetan, Southwestern Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka Chinese, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi,[7]
Religion
Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam
Related ethnic groups
Chinese people, Tibetan People, Bhutanese

Chinese people in India are communities of Han Chinese and Tibetan origin and settlement. There are permanent communities descended from immigrants and refugees from China as well as an expatriate community in India on a temporary basis.[4]

The immigrant community of workers started during British Colonial rule and became more prominent in the late 19th century with a small number of arrivals working at the ports in Calcutta and Madras and has gone on to contribute to the social and economic life of Kolkata through manufacturing and trade of leather products and running Chinese restaurants.[8]

The community living in Kolkata numbered around 2,000 in 2013[2][9][10] In Mumbai, the population of Chinese people, many who have multi-generation roots, is around 4,000.[7]

Separate from the multi-generation Han Chinese and Tibetan community, there are an estimated 5,000–7,000 Chinese expatriates working in India as of 2015, who generally work on two to three-year contracts for the growing number of brands and companies doing business in India.[4]

  1. ^ "Latest India-China border clash turns spotlight on Tibetan refugees in Special Frontier Force". South China Morning Post. 4 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b Krishnan, Murali (17 October 2013). "India's dwindling Chinatown". Deutsche Welle.
  3. ^ "僑委會全球資訊網". Archived from the original on 4 January 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d "Why India remains a difficult terrain for 7,000 Chinese expatriates living in the country". The Economic Times. 28 August 2015.
  5. ^ Chowdhury, Rita (18 November 2012). "The Assamese Chinese story". The Hindu. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Assamese of Chinese origin facing severe identity crisis". The Economic Times.
  7. ^ a b "Mumbai's 3rd generation Chinese eye global jobs, learn Mandarin". TOI. 3 November 2015.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Banglapedia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Zhang, Xing (2015). The Chinese Community in Calcutta: Preservation and Change. Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg. ISBN 9783869771045. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  10. ^ "Xing – The Chinese Community in Calcutta: Preservation … - Miscellaneen - Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg". uvhw.de.