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Still Guest People

The Reproduction of Hakka Identity in Kolkata, India

Ellen Oxfeld is at Sociology/Anthropology Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753. Email: oxfeld{at}middlebury.edu

This article is based on fieldwork conducted during the 1980s in a community of Hakka Chinese who had found a profitable niche in Kolkata's leather industry. It examines the way Kolkata's ethnic economy, in which different caste, language and religious groups each inhabit different economic niches, furthered the Hakka's continued identification of themselves as ‘guest people’. The Hakka distinguished between themselves and a variety of others, not only other Indian groups, but also the Cantonese and Hubeinese Chinese.

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