60413 Judging from pictures of that time, over half of the police were Indians with turbans.
60414 After administration of the colony of Hong Kong stabilized the police force came to be predominately Chinese, but with a reputation for keeping the peace, a large number of Indians are employed in the security sector even today.
60415 Certainly, of the Indians living in Hong Kong, it is not uncommon to be descended from police or Indian merchants who came to Hong Kong in the 19th century.
60416 The first foreign inhabitants of Hong Kong were Indians, and at present they number 25,000.
60417 The standard of Indian food in Hong Kong is said to be as high as the Chinese cuisine.
60418 Many Indian restaurants or Indian-affiliated businesses are located on Hollywood Road in the Central District, where the police station was located in the early colonial days.
60419 Raji Sitar, who with his family runs a trading company dealing in electrical appliances and watches on a corner of this street, was born in Hong Kong.
60420 He was brought up by a Chinese maid and attended an elementary school for Hong Kong children, so his Cantonese is native level and he can understand Mandarin as well.
60421 His father, Kei Sitar, was born in India and came to Hong Kong, where his elder brother was, soon after the war.
60422 In the 1950s he opened a Western clothing shop in Japan targeting American military personnel, and his Japanese is still good.
60423 He came back to Hong Kong after that and established the present company.
60424 Raji began helping out at his father's company with two of his brothers after graduating from university in the U.S.
60425 Currently, their company owns factories that make electrical appliances, such as cassette radios and also watches in Guangdong Province, China and exports to the U.S. and other countries.
60426 Raji makes monthly trips to China, visiting such places as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and they have plans to ship goods to the interior of China as well.
60427 They are identical to other Hong Kong entrepreneurs that have set up bases in China.