The Chinese community in India are a community of immigrants and their descendants that emigrated from China starting in the late 18th century to work at the Calcutta port and Madras Port. Government sources cited by a Deutsche Welle article in 2013 put the number of Chinese in Kolkata around 2000 most of whom live in or near Chinatown in Tangra.The ethnic Chinese have contributed to many areas of the social and economic life of Kolkata.
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