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**Ifroham4** · 06-10-2008, 12:08 PM

Read Chitty as Chetty (or Shetty) and it would start making sense. The population was part of large contingents of Chettis (merchants, traders, money lenders) who travelled from South India to China taking with them large amounts of goods and bring back large amounts of goods from China and Sri Vijaya.

Chetty made their expedition into SE Asia in the 19th century. However, the Chitty melaka community has been in Melaka (Malacca) since the 15th century during the Malacca sultante's reign.

"PLEASE don't confuse us with the Chettiars. They are moneylenders and we are the traders who came here in the 14th Century like the Babas & Nonyas." So pleads Chitty village elder V. Ramasamy Pillai. "

http://peranakan.web1000.com/IndianPeranakans.htm

06-10-2008, 12:08 PM	#7
Ifroham4 Join Date Apr 2007 Posts 5,196 Senior Member	Read Chitty as Chetty (or Shetty) and it would start making sense. The population was part of large contingents of Chettis (merchants, traders, money lenders) who travelled from South India to China taking with them large amounts of goods and bring back large amounts of goods from China and Sri Vijaya. Chetty made their expedition into SE Asia in the 19th century. However, the Chitty melaka community has been in Melaka (Malacca) since the 15th century during the Malacca sultante's reign. "PLEASE don't confuse us with the Chettiars. They are moneylenders and we are the traders who came here in the 14th Century like the Babas & Nonyas." So pleads Chitty village elder V. Ramasamy Pillai. " http://peranakan.web1000.com/IndianPeranakans.htm
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