SHANGHAI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Shanghai follows in the footsteps of a large ethnic Indian population which lived in the thriving port city before China's Communists took power in 1949.

Thousands of Indians worked in Shanghai in jobs ranging from business to law enforcement during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Britain dominated the International Settlement and India was part of the British Empire.

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