Virtual Trail: India's Oldest Chinatown
Sat 20 Mar
|Virtual Experience
The first modern Chinatown in South Asia came up in the thriving British colonial city of Calcutta in the late 18th century. This immersive virtual trail follows the ebb and flow of life, culture, politics and food of Calcutta's Old Chinatown, the oldest in India and South Asia.
Time & Location
20 Mar 2021, 19:00 – 21:00 GMT+5:30
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About the event
Calcutta boasts the oldest Chinatown in the world outside the sphere of Chinese cultural influence in Southeast Asia. The Chinese community from several villages in South China started arriving and settling in Calcutta, a thriving colonial capital, since the late 1770s. Soon they started calling the city home, with only formal ties with their original homeland.
The Chinese in Calcutta excelled as artisans and later, as restaurateurs, and built Taoist temples in their settlement in Tiretta Bazar. A thriving Chinatown thus came up in the center of the city, adding to the ethnic and cultural diversity to Calcutta.
In this walk, we will explore what remains of this Old Chinatown of Kolkata. We will visit 5 Chinese temples, learn about the Chinese culture and traditions unique to the Kolkata Chinese, and explore their connections with the Indian freedom movement as well as the Chinese revolution of 1911-12.
The walk will…
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India's Oldest Chinatown
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₹350.00
+₹63.00 GST
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