ANTH2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hubei, Guan Yu, Carpentry
13 Dec 2018
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During 1840s world has experienced many unrestricted immigrations of chinese population. Stuart hall notes that there are also critical points of deep and significant difference which constitute what we really are , or rather since history has never intervened- what we have become . (hall, 1990). This diverse society in kolkata has given birth to different subgroups of chinese like hakkas, Atchew was the first chinese settler in south asia and in the year 1778, according to a british document, in return for the tea he offered as a gift to the reigning british governor general of. India warren hastings, atchew received a large land grant near calcutta. Atchew established a sugar mill factory and to serve in his factory he called many chinese from. China to settle in kolkata and to work for him. Alabaster reports that there was a colony of about 500 cantonese and hakka chinese living in.
