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    Armenian descendants reduced to just 200

    STAFF WRITER 12:32 HRS IST
    Amitava Das

    Kolkata, Apr 18 (PTI) From a once robust 40,000 at the time of
    Independence, the number of Armenian descendants in India has
    nosedived to barely 200 now, most of them having migrated to the west.

    The majority of them now live in Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and
    Bangalore, the manager and pastor of Armenians in India, Father Khoren
    Hovhannisyan, told PTI.

    Kolkata, which once had the largest concentration of the community,
    now hosts only 152 of them, which indicates the rapid dilution of the
    city's once-famous cosmopolitan profile.

    They had once been an important constituent of the city's business
    community, mainly present in the manufacturing sector. Now they have
    joined the tribe of professionals in a great way.

    The present generation of Armenians in India practises mixed marriages
    and are very tenuously linked to Armenia, their motherland,
    Hovhannisyan said.


    http://www.ptinews.com/news/614717_Armenian-desce ndants-reduced-to-just-200
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