Why are there no Chinese in India?

There are people in China, but the number in other countries is relatively small.

Chinese are all over the world. Unlike the "prosperity" of Chinese in other countries, there are fewer and fewer overseas Chinese in India, from 50,000 half a century ago to more than 6,000 now. For decades, although India's population has grown rapidly, the number of overseas Chinese has been declining.

First, the history and present situation of Chinese in India

(1) The number of Chinese in India has dropped from 50,000 at its peak to 6,000 at present. /kloc-At the end of 0/7, a Catholic from Guangdong became the first Indian to settle in China. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, a group of China people, mainly Cantonese Hakkas, crossed the ocean and came to Kolkata, the Indian capital during the British colonial period. They settled in Diamond Harbor, 65 kilometers away from the city, and thrived, becoming the first Chinese settlement in India. Since then, the number of China people coming to India has continued to increase. In the 1950s, overseas Chinese in India ushered in a "heyday", with a population of 50,000, including more than 20,000 in Taba, a suburb in the northwest of Kolkata. These people can be divided into two categories according to their place of origin, one is Hakka in Meixian County, Guangdong Province, and the other is Hakka in Tianmen County, Hubei Province.

In recent years, a large number of overseas Chinese have emigrated overseas. So far, there are only over 6,000 overseas Chinese in India, including over 4,000 in Kolkata, over 0/000 in Mumbai/Kloc, over 500 in New Delhi, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, and the rest in Hyderabad and Bangalore. It is understood that almost every overseas Chinese family in India has emigrated overseas, and most of them are elderly people and children. Some local Chinese even think that according to the current trend, Chinese may disappear in India.

(2) There are many reasons for the decline of Chinese in India. First, in the late 1950s, Sino-Indian relations deteriorated. From February 196 1 to September 1962, more than 200 Indian Chinese were deported under various names. After the Sino-Indian border conflict broke out, the Indian government issued a decree to freeze Chinese property. The Indian government of West Bengal even stipulated that arrested and released China people should not settle in the northern part of the state, but must live in Kolkata. An old overseas Chinese in Mumbai said that in 1962, his grandfather and parents were put in prison, and the local government closed all Chinese schools and many shops, which made overseas Chinese feel insecure. Since then, overseas Chinese have started to leave India and emigrate to Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province, Canada and Southeast Asia, and the number of Chinese has dropped sharply year after year. However, with the improvement of Sino-Indian relations, the restrictions and discriminatory measures against Chinese have long since become history, and the Chinese who stayed behind have gradually led a quiet life.

In addition to historical reasons, India is still in the period of immigration, which is also the reason for the gradual decline of Indian Chinese. On the one hand, as a developing country and a populous country, India is not as attractive as some new immigrant sites in the world. A young man from China who just graduated from university thinks that the unemployment rate in India is too high and the wages are very low. If he stays there, the future is really ordinary. On the other hand, India has taken measures to welcome and restrict immigrants and attract overseas investment, which has objectively affected the entry of new immigrants. In addition, some local economic measures have also shaken the confidence of Chinese people to stay in India and continue to develop. In Kolkata, where there are the most Chinese, in order to develop the economy and integrate the local leather industry, the government asked the Chinese leather industry to move out, which led to many families moving overseas.