 Governor General Warren Hastings granted land to Achew to set up a sugar cane plantation and sugar factory in a place, currently called Achipur, located near the town of Budge-Budge on the banks of the River Hoogly.According to records of the British East India Company from the year 1778 "Achew was granted 650 bighas of land about 6 miles south of Budge – Budge for an annual rent of Rs 45".Many of the earliest Chinese immigrants worked on the Khidderpore docks.