Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c13.s3.t2.164

v2.c13.s3.t2.164

of the tea industry that the British set up in this region for which they imported Chinese labour. Many of these Chinese stayed on and intermarried with local people. Their main settlement in Assam was a place known as Makam in Upper Assam. Before the 1962 border conflict between India and China, Makam had a thriving Assamese-Chinese community numbering around 1,500 people.