Question

The village of Achipur is named for a member of this ethnic group who produced sugar, which is possibly named for this ethnic group in a local language spoken by the Hooghly River. This ethnic group historically owned many large tanneries in the Tangra neighborhood and also established still-extant shops in the Tiretti (15[1])Bazaar area. In 1962, members of this non-European ethnic group were interned in the town of Deoli after an incident in which the (*) McMahon Line was breached. Members from this group feared (-5[1])retaliation after their country of origin’s disputed (-5[1])Aksai Chin region was the site (-5[1])of clashes in the Galwan Valley along the Line of Actual Control. For 10 points, name this ethnic group that introduced foods such as Gobi (-5[1])Manchurian and chop suey (10[1])to Kolkata. ■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: Chinese [or Indian Chinese; or Han Indians; or Hakka Indians; accept any description of people with ancestry from China living in India; prompt on Indochinese; do not accept or prompt on “Indians”]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, World History>
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