page_title: Ethnic communities in Kolkata
section_title: Chinese
hierarchical_section_title: Ethnic communities in Kolkata / Chinese
caption_attribution_description: English: United Friends Group performing Dragon Dance during Chinese New Year 2014 celebration in Kolkata Old china town area.
context_page_description: Kolkata, India, is largely inhabited by the ethnic community of the native Bengali people respectively. According to a report by the Indian Statistical Institute owned by the Government of India, the Kolkata city had a population of 4.5 million as of 2011 out of which the population of indegenous Bengalis in Kolkata is 55% which comprised overwhelming majority of the city's population, whereas Marwaris, Biharis, Muslims together forming 34.4% of the population which comes under the category of large minorities. Other Various micro-minortiy communities of Kolkata include as far as concerned follows -: Sindhi people, Pathan people, Marathi people, Odia people, Gujarati people, Kashmiri people, Punjabi people, Chinese, Nepalis, Telugus, Tamil, Anglo-Indian, Iraqis, Jewish, Armenian, Tibetan, Greek, Parsi, Iraqi people.
context_section_description: Chinatown (Bengali: চায়নাটাউন, কলকাতা) in the eastern part of the city of Kolkata is the only Chinatown in India. Once home to 20,000 ethnic Chinese, its population dropped to around 2,000 as of 2009 as a result of multiple factors including repatriation and denial of Indian citizenship following the 1962 Sino-Indian War, and immigration to foreign countries for better economic opportunities. The Chinese community traditionally worked in the local tanning industry and ran Chinese restaurants.
caption: Chinese New Year 2014 Celebration in Kolkata
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