The Star Ferry, which links Hong Kong Island
Peninsula, by Dorabji Naorojee.
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The Hong Kong University with the unrelenting commitment
of Sir H. N. Mody when the Governor, Lugard, failed to take up
Mody's initiative.
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Belilios, a
Parsi, was later elected Chairman of the Bank in the late 1800's.
He also served as a member of the Legislative Council in 1881.
Sir H. N. Mody donated a statue of Queen Victoria to the Colony
which stood in the middle of the Central District until the
Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
The Anti-Tuberculosis Sanatorium by Ruttonjee.
Furthermore, in
the 1960's Dhun Ruttonjee became a member of the Legislative
Council and later became its President.
Many Indians gave up their loyalty to India and gave their loyalty instead to the
United Kingdom.
After the Second World War, Indians continued to serve the Colonial
Government but more and more came for trade and commerce. The Indians
came and had families here because Hong Kong was British and because they
believed it would remain so. They had faith in British laws and its system of
Government. This generation of Indians further developed the longstanding
historical connection with the British in Hong Kong. After the partition of India
in 1947, for many Indians in Hong Kong their ancestral home was on the wrong
side of a political and religious border created by the partition of British India.
Indians became an integral part of the post-war economic development of Hong
Kong. In 1952 the Indian Chamber of Commerce was set up and in 1962 it
began issuing Certificates of Origin for the export of goods manufactured
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