 Many ‘China Patty,’ or small China towns, sprang up in different parts of Assam — of which the China Patty of Makum was the biggest.Some Chinese convicts were deported from the early history of Straits Settlements entirely inhabited by Teochew and some Hakka immigrants were sent to be jailed in Madras in India, the "Madras district gazetteers, Volume 1" reported an incident where the Chinese convicts escaped and killed the police sent to apprehend them