Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c13.s4.t4.2

v2.c13.s4.t4.2

Tradition holds that the first Chinese to settle in India was a person called Atchew or Achi (Yang Dazhao in Chinese) who around the year 1780 petitioned the then British Governor General in Calcutta, Warren Hastings, for land on which to grow sugarcane. His petition was granted, and he was allotted land about 15 km south of Calcutta, at a place which is still called Achipur in his memory.