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D' Sheen & Co Shoe & Boot Maker as shown on the board, is a family-owned shop where cutting, stitching, and mending of shoes are all done in a sleepy old rusted shop. A worker uses a stitching machine to stitch around the shoe's lining. Chinese footwear makers may lead the world with exports topping $9 billion (about Rs38,000 crore) a year, but what the famous Chinese shoe shops on Bentinck Street in central Kolkata are selling these days is almost entirely sourced from contract manufacturers in Uttar Pradesh. Shoes produced by these stores, which were set up in the 1940s, were famous for their style, durability, and affordability. The Hakkas, a sub-group of the Han Chinese, who migrated to Kolkata and wrested control of this business from local Muslims in the 1950s, lent a contemporary to
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