"Terror AID"?
Communist - Pakistani links to Attack Inside Democracies
By: Veera Vaishnava

http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?m...t&counter_img=4

Non-BJP CMs want Centre to evict Bangladeshis
Pioneer Neews Service/ New Delhi

At CMs meet, B'deshi and Naxal menace takes centrestage--- The issue of infiltration from Bangladesh dominated the Chief Ministers' conference on Friday with chief ministers of at least seven non-BJP states asking the Centre to take steps to firmly tackle the controversial issue which posed a grave threat to national security.

The alarm bells rung by the Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram should come as a wake up call for the UPA Government at the Centre, which has been reluctant to admit the danger of Bangladeshi infiltration.

The issue of illegal infiltration from Bangladesh has often generated much controversy in the political arena. While the BJP has been in the forefront of seeking strong action against the infiltrators, Congress and many of its UPA allies have been shy of admitting the problem because of votebank considerations. In many Lok Sabha seats and Assembly segments along the Bangladesh border, the infiltrators are in a position to decide the fate of candidates, which exposes the policy of appeasement being practiced by many political parties.

The meeting called to discuss internal security issues saw concern on illegal infiltration from Bangladesh emerging as the main focus of debate along with growing problems of Naxal menace.

While chief ministers of Maharashtra and West Bengal separately spoke of the danger of infiltration from Bangladesh and its linkage with ISI activities, the issue brought five chief ministers from the North East on one platform.

Alarmed by the rising illegal immigration into North-East from Bangladesh, the chief ministers of the five states of the region asked the Centre to increase security along the international borders and help them strengthen their police forces.

They also demanded that the region's insurgency problems be treated as a "national issue as in the case of Kashmir" so that these could be solved quickly.

"Steps have been taken to ensure that the demographic structure of the North-East is kept intact. The Centre should strengthen the presence of border security force along the borders with Bangladesh," Meghalaya Chief Minister DD Lapang told a Press conference.

"They should enhance its manpower and modernise its mechanism for checking immigration. We also expect financial support for modernising our police forces," he added.

He was joined by his counterpart from Arunachal Pradesh Gegong Apang, Manipur CM O Ibobi Singh, Mizoram CM Zoramthanga and Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio.

Differences within the states on the issue of illegal immigration, however, became evident with Mr Rio virtually charging Assam with not taking steps to check it.

"Assam has almost become a breeding ground for illegal migrants as they are procuring documents like ration cards there and then coming to the hills, this is very dangerous," the Nagaland CM said.

Mr Rio also claimed that such migrants were being settled in disputed areas between Assam and several other states.

The Congress-led Maharashtra Government also made a strong plea to the Centre for greater coordination and support to tackle the problem of Bangladeshi nationals, whose "heavy influx" into the state, especially in Mumbai, posed a serious threat to the internal security.

Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, addressing the conference of internal security, said a large number of Bangladeshi nationals were settled in the slums in Mumbai and some other cities like Pune, Nagpur, Nasik, and their involvement in criminal activities and organised crime was growing.

Besides, a number of Bangladeshi girls are also finding their way into the flesh trade and dance bars of Mumbai, he said, adding that detection, arrest and deportation of the Bangladeshi nationals was "problematic and time-consuming."

Mr Deshmukh wanted a more effective, cohesive and institutionalised mechanism of intelligence sharing between the Centre and the state, considering Mumbai's special place in the overall security scenario.

He wanted the Centre to help the state set up a team for Mumbai to tackle the situation arising out of possible deployment of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists in Mumbai.

Mr Deshmukh said intelligence reports have indicated the gameplan of Pakistan's ISI of landing arms and explosives on the west coast of India and simultaneously operating through the underworld to push in fake currency to shatter the economy.

The Left Front Government of West Bengal was also equally forceful in its presentation about the threat from infiltration. Expressing serious concern over infiltration of ISI agents into India from the neighbouring country who are engaged in espionage and other 'subversive activities, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya said state police along with the central agencies have been taking effective action against these elements.

West Bengal has been maintaining a strict vigil along the entire stretch of the state's international border, particularly with Bangladesh, it has put its machinery on high alert and was closely monitoring the situation, he said.

Apart from the continuing incidents of infiltration across the Indo-Bangladesh border, Mr Bhattacharya said recent intelligence inputs indicating heightened activities of the ISI and fundamentalist organisations in the neighbouring country pose a serious threat to the Eastern region of India.

"Yesterday Once More" Part 1: FOIL PRIMER
By Narayanan Komerath

A Destitute Hindu

Sometimes I feel, India may not be a rudderless ship (136 Billion Forex), it is that Indians may be navigating International waters without a compass (they lack CDC). Or there are too many captains of the calm sea on board S.S.INDIA, (mind you I never said M.V.INDIA, big difference -- one is steam ship, the other a motor vessel) But does not the GOI know that too many cooks spoil the broth?

This is what is exactly happening with our India, if New Delhi is something to be looked at, For we have quasi junk, dormant, do-nothing PMO on one side, untutored MEA on the other hand which is busy producing mother of all blunders a la Korea (yes, nukes are big mistake of India), Nepal (no Indian arms for it, only Pak-China), Vatican (mourning blunder) and finally a queen Sonia with crown sans Indian Monarchy, with yes mam stooges a la Ahmed Patels.

Too many crooks spoil the brothel.

With above unique qualities full of petty character, why do you think western nations would give us any respect? Don't these nations fully know, that even a country like Sudan is better than India on certain terms?

Sudan, being a pariah state of course, nevertheless, this tiny winy country has never been stamped as soft state, lamb state, comatose country, rudderless ship and all other contemptuous names synonyms with India. This smaller country is capable of defying UN a la Darfur, do what they think is good for them a la China (although it may not be), but they have the resolve, which India lacks big time.

What good is your gun if you cannot fire it?

When is the last time we played a hardball with pony Bangladesh - leave mighty US alone for a moment? In an international arena India is like a burger with bone, whiskey without alcohol, that nobody desires. Look at Mister Modi who was cloned as Castro by State Dept scientists because he possesses all the qualities to be the future Prime Minister of India.

Writing is on the sky, Look at the pregnant Falcons flying with a womb (nukes).

Indians should not be asked what is wrong with them, everything is wrong since inception of Mughul Raj of India, Mahatma Gandhi's FIR was filed in Urdu language, Jawaharlal Nehru was upbeat on Farsi than Hindi language, our Rajya Sabha members a la Shabana and Kuldeeps are busy protecting Islamic terrorists and questioning our police instead (ansal plaza), rather they should be asked what is right with them. If Indians cant care for their own survival -- nothing is right with them -- never will be.

Gone are those days of cavemen's world, where crime did strike first, police came later, right now we live in a lawful society bound by ethics n constitution and not otherwise, hence the onus is on our premiers and chiefs of the Indian high command to ensure that they deliver the prudent and conducive environment for us Indians to live in which we should be free from corrupt clutches of Laloos, Shahi imams of India and Dawoods of Pakistan and survive peacefully -- to thrive in India seems to be the luxury.

Haji Mastan is long dead but long liveth Dawood Ibrahim with star and crescent empire of Islam, who with his giant robotic arm, transfers Indian resources to Islamabad, with his multi million extortion empire, whose victims are exclusively Hindus -- there is no stop to Hindu misery; http://www.indiacause.com/columns/OL_050324.htm

I am sorry, but our own secular Hindus are not realizing what is waiting in the wings for them, come September. Why do they always think hunky dory despite Sabarmati Express a la Godhra, Ghatkoper Bomb Blast, Coimbatore Bomb Blast, Bombay Bomb Blast, where a series of fifteen massive explosions rocked the length and breadth of Bombay, India on Friday, March 12, 1993? The blasts, which killed at least two hundred and twenty-eight people and injured more than 1,200, reportedly struck several Bombay neighborhoods simultaneously.

Don't worry, that was, after all, the same thinking of those rich Hindus of Hyderabad under Nizam's rule and those of Noakhali, who got decimated and got converted ultimately. It would be your turn next, if you don't mend your ways of Ishwar-Allah and Ram-O-Rahim a la Gandhi.

Nearly half a million Kashmiri Hindu Pundits are still knocking some doors without success.

Hindus better be proud villains of today than a poor victims of tomorrow.

Turn the tide on phony seculars by thinking 3D.

Keshto Patel.

Hi there!







I'm doing a schoolproject were one of the questions sounds like this:



"Why did India split into India AND Pakistan in 1947" ?



My schoolbook tells me that under the WW2 the British empire wanted India to take a part on their side in the war. And the British used the promises "independent state" as baite to this.



When the WW2 was over, the muslims wanted their own state to get away from the chaos, and that is why they splitted India into two countries... but that doesen't say it all..



Can someone please tell me the answer on my schoolproject-question, or atleast try??

I would be glad for some help please=)



Greets

<b>Shinkansen in Chandersen's world</b>



Interesting were the recent reports about Indians getting luxurious, bulbous bow, terrain hugging Shinkansen, a high speed rail network or bullet trains (dangan ressha) as they are known outside Nippon for their blistering pace, for Ahemedabad-Mumbai and Hyderabad route.



Interesting I say, because in Japan's efficient world of Shinkansen, left right and center, they blend in perfectly with other high tech surrounding of building, bridges and cement jungle, but such would not be the case, in case of India, which would look like a Zenaida asiatica (white-winged dove) among the corvus corax (raven), considering the surrounding structures of Indian infrastructure to be incongruous cosmetically, and if that would not be enough, there would be some folks defecating in the open, exposing their genitals to the dismay of high class paying travelers of the future


India ordering bullet train, Is like a Mumbai slum dweller ordering his food from Leela Kempinski - a five star hotel.


Above paragraph should not be taken lightly, For we are not known to produce world class products and buildings (quote Ratan Tata). We try to make them good but never better, leave the best for now. The first impression of any foreigner is that of his landing at Indian Airport, and you know where I am coming from. Look at the Changi Airport of Singapore, Sears Towers, the marvels of quality engineering at its best, and our old fashioned airports with bare basics.


But it does not matter, If bullet train would give us a face lift, so be it, lets go ahead and import them from Japan Rail, lay our tracks and ply them. When our Cambridge educated, blue turban PM has decided to do it, hey, let us all do it, lets join hands and create consensus on this. Japanese Shinkansen travel is exorbitantly expensive for international tourists, imagine a cup of coffee costing 3 dollar plus in Tokyo, against this backdrop India should do more to attract tourists with nation wide bullet train network attracting many more travelers in the process at one-tenth of the cost of Japanese ride, well, so is the coffee price.


But do we have Madam Sonia's nod for such a massive project? Boy, Italy is a high speed train friendly country too, they have ETR 500 series that runs 300 KPH too. Something is amiss that I don't understand. Why Japanese and not Italian? Is Sushi better than Spaghetti and Pasta? It seems so in this case. While Indians have just one model to choose from Italy, Japan on the other hand offers several (0 series, 100,200,300,400,500,700,800, E-1, E-2,E-3, E-4, N700, 700T series) with its impressive record of safety attached as a tag of quality. Milestone indeed with millions of enthusiasts worldwide collecting various bullet train models.





When we talk about Shinkansen, the speed factor comes to the fore instantly, For that is the mainstay of these high velocity trains coupled with comfort and luxury. And as we do not have no proper information of which model GOI would choose among several models going from, and whether they would be diesel to save on overhead electric line (The world's fastest diesel train is the Russian TEP80, at 273 km/h) or electric, Japan Rail/Hitachi have both the versions although diesel is not in vogue in Japan so Keshto would not speculate on this.


Talk about high speed trains, Japan is the Mecca with its vast network full of super fast trains with 300 runs a day on busy network and around 3 billion passenger so far to its credit. Mother of all the high speed rail network, yet running the trains punctually, efficiently and fares reimbursed should the train be late, truly remarkable system with no parallels! Can we expect the same from Indians used to Indian Railways, the biggest employer of India?


Then there is a track issue, High speed trains require new train track that would use no fish plates, it should be welded all the way and laid over thick bed of ballast because of terrible earth shaking velocity.


Last but not the least, its safety factor. When you pay them their price you ought to demand the best, For what is high speed worth sans safety? Japanese engineers have installed seismic monitors on newer lines at every 20 KM, by virtue of being the most earthquake prone country in the world.



On the other hand India is a land of traitors and terrorists who have already demonstrated their prowess in the form of Bombay Bomb Blast where they beat 300 Hindu businessmen of Dalal Street with terror stick. So it is but natural for our GOI to ask the manufacturer about possible installation of some sensors against potential sabotage -- kind of early warning. It should be noted that each bullet train stops (when brakes applied) at about 3 km far, which takes about one minute plus of time.


How easy it would be to derail the super fast train by simply putting an obstacle on the track and make it fall like a nine pins.

We don't want more S-6 compartments on our bullet a la Godhra please!


And finally do Indians have to go with sushi and sake to enjoy bullet trains ride?

Not at all. Remember the old ads for Hebrew National hot dogs -- you don't have to be Jewish to love them.

Shinkansen is not kosher Item, yet it is pride of Japan, newer models have big letters printed on them saying; AMBITIOUS JAPAN.

Think 3D

Kosher Keshto Patel

http://www.ceet.niu.edu/faculty/gupta/MEE321/vivek.html


I got this link from another site. We can hear Swamiji in his own voice talking about Dharma.



Prem

<b>Labour Party evicts Hindus from temple</b>

we all know that India is one of the most diverse countries in the world. There has been many ethnicities/groups/tribes/communities which has sought refuge in India from time immemorial like the parsis, the kochi jews, hakka chinese , syrian christians etc. There has been many groups which first came as invaders and later became indianised like the white huns (scythians?), kushans, bactrians (greeks?) etc. there are some traders and some groups of slaves (sidhis?) who have also assimilated in india.

I have always been fascinated by the ability of india to absorb all these groups and still retain the indianness and also the ability of these groups to add and enrich the indianness.

I would like to collate articles and useful anecdotes of these groups. I was inspired by the hakka chinese-indian thread at BR.

links about them

http://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/chinese.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> The Chinese made an entry into the city during late eighteenth century. By the mid 19th century they established themselves as skilled industrious and clean people. They are estimated to be about 20,000 in numbers. The greater parts are “Hakka”, the traditional tanners and shoemakers, followed by the carpenters and restaurant-keepers and the dentists.



They have managed to create a little china in Indian soil with traditional temples, dragon architecture and festoons in Chinese, with the rustle of real silk and the aroma of Chinese food. The Chinese have clustered in china town in central Calcutta and Tangra in east Calcutta, which is the tannery zone.



They have ventured not only in leather industry, but also in carpentry, dentistry, hairdressing, restaurants pharmaceutical and foods making. Two Chinese dailies are regularly published from Calcutta. Festivals are celebrated with the gaiety of china town everywhere. The Chinese New Year in February, rice pudding festival, the moon festival etc. are their major festivals. The ceremonial red candles, joss sticks, the ‘san chu’ or whole pig are a perfect accompaniment of festivities.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050305/asp/...ory_4453689.asp

http://cabletv.starhub.com/eng/highlight/0...,203344,00.html

http://indianchinese.org/


I would like to add the Anglo-Indians also.

Many of them have done great service to india in the fields of education and military.

Folks like Jim Corbett come to mind.

http://www.indianchild.com/anglo_indians.htm

http://www.indiaprofile.com/lifestyle/angloindians.htm

here is a list of famous anglo indians

http://www.anglo-indians.com/main.asp?menu...nuID=30&mymode=

http://www.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/jjean1.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ANGLO-INDIANS by Dr. Gloria J. Moore

The term "Anglo-Indian" was first used by Warren Hastings in the eighteenth century to describe both the British in India and their Indian-born children. In the nineteenth century the British in India still separated themselves from coloured people but accepted fairer (and often wealthier) people of dual heritage as "Anglo-Indian". Darker (and usually poorer) people were given the name "Eurasian". Today (apart from literature still alluding to the British who have lived in India for a long time as "Anglo-Indian" the term rightly signifies a world minority who have settled in Canada, New Zealand, the United States of Americas the United Kingdom and Australia, with some 150,000 still in India and a total of well over 500,000 world-wide.

A figure of at least 300,000 Anglo-Indians living in India at independence in 1947 has been given by Frank Anthony, the present leader of the Anglo-Indians in India (and by other leaders before him). Census figures were notoriously inaccurate under the British Raj since it was a widespread practice to claim to be "British" (to escape prejudice). Anglo-Indians were of British descent and were British subjects; they were never accepted by Indians as Indian.

This world minority are descendants of Europeans and Indians, their mother tongue is English, they are Christians (mainly Catholics and Anglicans), and at independence they lived throughout India, in the tiny towns up-country and in the cities of Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Agra, Cochin, Lucknow, and Bangalore, a great centre of Anglo-Indian life. They travelled overseas, to Burma and Ceylon, to Europe, and especially to Britain, the birthplace of their male ancestors.

The 1820s saw the rise of political activity under John Ricketts, Louis Derozio and Captain John Doveton. Schools and colleges, training ships and agricultural schemes were set up. As a result of rising prejudice, self-help and community organisation grew, creating a real Anglo-Indian community with a sense of identity that never waned. These activities, coupled with later work by Sir Henry Gidney (a famous eye specialist and political leader), led to a certain security of employment for the Anglo-Indians. They were given some public positions in government, the police, customs, merchant navies and railways. They went into business, like the famous "Grand Mogul" Palmers and the Kellners. They were defined as Anglo-Indians by Lord Hardinge in the census of 1911. In 1935 and in Article 366 (2) of the 1950 Indian Constitution, they were again defined as a distinct "Community". After independence they were guaranteed representatives in the national parliament, yet today the situation of a large number in the subcontinent is precarious. For 300 years they have challenged racial prejudice in British India.

Anglo-Indians were brought into being by the direct policies of Portuguese, Dutch and British traders and colonists. The East India Company directors in the seventeenth century paid one pagoda or gold mohur for each child born to an Indian mother and a European father, as family allowance. Children with British or European fathers and Indian mothers were called "country-born" and included those with Portuguese, Dutch or French fathers. These offspring were amalgamated into the Anglo-Indian community, forming a bulwark for the British Raj, a buffer but also a bridge between rulers and subjects.

At every point of critical importance in the development of the British Raj, Anglo-Indians were present. At the Mysore wars, at the Mahratta, Sikh, Afghan and Gurkha wars, Anglo-Indian or countryborn men fought and helped win victories, defending their fathers' interests. The great regiments of the Indian army had among them the Khyber Rifles (founder, Sir Robert Warburton), the Shekwati Brigade (founder, Colonel Henry Forster) and Skinner's Horse (founder, Colonel James Skinner). All these men were the sons of Anglo-Indian marriages, having among their ancestors Indian or Anglo-Indian women. From 1791 the Anglo-Indians were debarred from the East India Company's armies and many trained the armies of the Indian princes. The French-descended Bourbons served Bhopal; the Filoses served the Scindia maharajas of Gwalior. It is now acknowledged by biographers (as Anglo-Indians have long believed) that men like William Pitt, Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Lord Liverpool and W. M. Thackeray, who contributed eminently to political life and to literature, were of partly Indian descent.

These Westernised people, their culture inherited from their male ancestors but enriched by the spirit of India, have descended from all classes, from both Indian and European aristocrats, from missionaries and naval men, and from traders and soldiers. By 1750 they outnumbered the often transient British.

Australia had many strong links with the world of British India, and this fact is still reflected in Australian architecture. (The verandah was a gift of Anglo-India.) Administrators, army personnel, bishops, travellers and clergy moved between the two countries. Livestock from Bengal reached farms in New South Wales and horses from New South Wales were shipped to the Indian army for cavalry. The Anglican Church in Australia came under the diocese of Calcutta. There were Indian-born people (even convicts) living in the earliest colonies. Their English surnames make it hard to identify the Anglo-Indians, but one, James Sievwright, a convict clerk at the Hobart post office in 1844, was fluent in English, French, German, Bengali, Hindustani, Persian, Greek and Latin.

Colonel Light (whose mother was probably Malay) spent a brief period in India, but his life was characteristic of this group - he was refused a commission in the East India Company. Light's memorial is the city of Adelaide; his design was possibly influenced by the beauty of Regency Calcutta with its new Government House, which he remembered from his visit there in 1805. Caroline Chisholm and Lachlan Macquarie spent years in India. Some of Caroline Chisholm's students from a school she opened in Madras might have emigrated through the Bengal Australia Settlement Scheme.

A major shipment of Anglo-Indians was organised by Sir William Burton, a judge in Madras in 1844. Burton was president of the Madras East India Society and sought relief for those who "are Christians and look to England as the land of their origin". The society sent two groups from Madras to Sydney in the William Prowse (1853) and the Paltyra (1854). (A similar scheme for Albany in Western Australia ended with a shipwreck.) Those settled by Burton were surveyed by the Anglo-Indian author Henry Cornish in 1875 and the results were published in his Under the Southern Cross (republished by Penguin in 1975). Twenty-four had been compositors on Henry Parkes's newspaper, the Empire. James Spooner was at Towns and Company, Sydney; H. (Henry) Moreau was a hairdresser in New Road, Sydney; William Grogan, James Dias and John Gotting were at Cunningham's printing press in Pitt Street, Sydney, while Thomas Reynolds and James Baker had left Sydney to join the Brisbane Courier. Benjamin Franz, John Hovenden and Thomas Martin had died, and several others had returned to India. Most were satisfied with their wages and conditions. Young married couples would have made a complete success of the scheme, wrote Cornish.

The Indian mutiny of 1857, in which thousands of Anglo-Indians suffered, led to a rise in the number of Indian-born settlers in Australia, among them officers of Hodson's Horse and other regiments. Colonel Andrew Crawford (who was English) had also arrived in Tasmania; he was a former adjutant-general of the Bombay army. He began the Castra farming scheme in northern Tasmania, attracting retired Indian army officers. As early as 1825 an attempt was made to found an Indian Institution for the sons of Anglo-Indians and British men. Links with Tasmania and other areas (such as Western Australia) were strong. There were 372 Indian-born registered in Tasmania in 1881. Among them was Dr John Coverdale, born in 1814 in Kedgeree, Bengal. Coverdale was a medical practitioner at Moonah, where he lived for many years. The Anglo-Indian film star of the 1930s and 1940s, Merle Oberon (born in Calcutta), lived in an era of deception, giving her birthplace as Tasmania to evade prejudice in the American film industry, according to her biographers.

Anglo-Indians contributed en masse to the modernisation of India, as their schools (with 80-90 per cent Anglo-Indian enrolment) provided a network of European and Anglo-Indian education across the country. Anglo-Indians also had a long tradition of military service. They fought in Britain's wars from Plassey to Assaye, from Waterloo to the Crimea and the Boer War. In the First World War Victoria Crosses were won by William Leefe Robinson of the Royal Flying Corps and Reginald Alexander Warneford of the Royal Naval Air Service. Between the two World Wars the veterans faced increasing difficulties as the Indian Home-Rule movement gathered momentum. In the Second World War they flew with "the few" in the Battle of Britain (Guy Gibson of the Dam Busters), and were at Dunkirk, North Africa, Malaya and the fall of Singapore. At the end of the Second World War many chose to be demobbed in Australia or Britain.

The handover of political power in August 1947, the end of the Raj and the communal killings all engendered insecurity among many minority groups. Over 100,000 Anglo-Indians emigrated initially, mostly to Britain. While the first census after independence did not record Anglo-Indian numbers, Frank Anthony believes that almost all of the 191,979 "native speakers of English in India" were Anglo-Indians.

The late 1940s and early 1950s saw some emigration to Perth and other centres. Among those migrants were John Buckle, who had survived the atomic attack on Nagasaki while a prisoner of war; Adrian MacDermott, who came to Melbourne from Changi and the Burma Railway; Patricia Pengilley, who won a Churchill Fellowship and spent a lifetime teaching the adult deaf; Norman Oehme, who farmed in the west and left his land to Aborigines; and Basil Sellars, a director of such companies as AFP Investment Corp, Elders IXL and British Gestetner.

Noreen Lubeck, an ex-officer of the Women's Army Corps (India), moved to Victoria, where her son (like many after him) encountered teasing because of his race. One man recalls that families faced being split, the fair being accepted and the dark rejected. However, their desire to settle in a Christian country made them persevere.

The educational levels and competence in English of Anglo-Indians were of a high standard. Several graduates from St Joseph's, Northpoint, who arrived in the early years, did well. Ed. Patterson became chief engineer of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme; the Gidneys, kin of the late Sir Henry Gidney, have several doctors among their number and have settled throughout Australia. Others went from journalism to writing histories (Reginald Maher in Perth), from Dehra Dun to Duntroon (both military academies), and from the railways to mining in Western Australia.

In the 1960s thousands of Anglo-Indians who had emigrated to Britain were considering remigration with their British-born children to new countries. The relaxation in 1966 of the restrictive entry policy, and the adoption in 1973 of a policy of non-discrimination on the grounds of race, colour or nationality in the selection of migrants, resulted in a noticeable increase in the number of Anglo-lndian settlers in Australia. Between July 1969 and June 1972 Australia admitted 6,892 Indian-born of "mixed descent", of whom 39 per cent went to Victoria and 33 per cent to Western Australia. To this figure must be added the thousands who remigrated with their children to Australia from the United Kingdom or Canada. All these countries now have sizeable Anglo-lndian settler groups. Of the 41,657 Indian-born settlers recorded in the 1981 Australian census, Ken McIntyre (and leaders of the community) believe that at least 75 per cent (who are Christian) are Anglo-lndian. The largest number arrived from India in 1969. The Anglo-lndian community is less than 0.03 per cent of the total population of India. Virtually a stateless people, they face increasing difficulties in education and employment in India.

In 1947 Roland McGready became a gazetted officer, with 70,000 men under his command, in the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. He left for Melbourne in the 1960s. His son, Dr Roland McGready (a biochemist), has a successful academic research consultancy. A daughter, Kathy, toured India with an Australian women's cricket team and is writing its history. Malcolm and Bonita Prior and Peter Savedra opened factories which employ hundreds of people between them. Tony Archer and former boxing champion Peter Prince are in the insurance business. Henry Roach, Colonel Charles Campagnac and Colonel Denzil Alexander (whose family served the maharajas of Jaipur for seven generations) opened the Independent Oil Company, which plans to build its own refinery in Westernport Bay, Victoria. Kris Noble, who arrived from the United Kingdom, produces satirical television programs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), such as The Gillies Report. Some have opened restaurants, such as the Gardners and Parkers (Melbourne), the Bretagnes (Sydney), and the deRosarios (Adelaide). Others have moved into real estate and investment, like Ivan Phillips, formerly of Northpoint. Those who arrived in 1948 could bring savings. From the 1960s, however, Indian currency restrictions meant that most arrived with $7 per person. Father Murphy of the Catholic Immigration Office in Melbourne remembers helping many adults who had sacrificed good careers for their children's future.

Anglo-Indians are stable, conscientious workers, with extended family networks and a lively social life. They remained interested in India and the East, showing concern for Anglo-Indians still in India. Their settlement has been smooth and trouble-free, and they maintain good relations with other groups. Unfortunately, some have encountered discrimination at work. Philosophical, adaptable and with a strong community spirit, they assimilate more readily than the other Indian-born such as Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims. Those who have lived in the United Kingdom or Canada are now accustomed to doing their own domestic work, although all at first missed the comforts of India in this regard and their unique social life there. All prefer the climate and informality of Australian life. Opposition rarely exists to out- marriage into other groups, and Anglo-Indians are marrying increasingly often into other ethnic groups. Since they have the same language, religion and culture as the mainstream society, they may well lose their ethnic identity.

Anglo-Indians have made a significant contribution to teaching in Australia. They can be found throughout all the networks of schools, private and State, from Scotch College to Geelong Grammar, and in Australian universities, although they are under-represented in these so far. Government departments, the police, the armed forces, customs, hospitals, libraries and the arts all employ Anglo-Indians. Their children often move into the professions.

Anglo-Indians are sports-loving and were the sports stars of India. Leslie Hammond has settled in Ballarat, and the brothers Richard and Laurie Carr live in Melbourne. Gene Raymond and Dusty Millar (boxers) went to Melbourne (Raymond via the United Kingdom). The Pearces in Perth helped win Olympic victories for Australian hockey. Rudy Pacheco, Marcus Syms and Julian Maugey began the Springvale/Noble Park Hockey Club, which draws all groups and ages, as does Ken McIntyre's Australia-India Cricket Club - both in Melbourne. Kingsley Hayes-Rosario, a former Scots Guard, coaches cricket in Victoria. Dennis Fallon and Dudley Beeby coach hockey teams in Glen Waverley, Melbourne. Fund-raising charity functions are a feature in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, as they are in the United Kingdom and Canada. The Melbourne Rangers, the Australia-India Society of Victoria, the Sydney Rangers, and "old school" associations (such as those of Bishop Cotton of Bangalore and Campion-Vestry of Trichinopoly, in Melbourne), all flourish and provide scholarships for youth in India or grants to charities in Australia. The Indian Ex-Service Club of Victoria hosts visiting generals, admirals and air vice-marshals from the Indian armed forces, such as Admiral Ronald Almedia and Brigadier-General Desmond Hayde, a hero of the battle of Dograi in the India-Pakistan conflict, in September 1965.

The recently formed Australian Anglo-Indian Research Association in Melbourne aims to encourage, co-ordinate and supervise all aspects of research on Anglo-Indians - their history, settlement and welfare. To date there is little useful or valuable information on the Anglo-Indians. Attempts are now being made to change this: Gloria Moore in The Lotus and the Rose and The Anglo Indian Vision, Eric Stracey (Canberra), former inspector-general of police (Tamil Nadu), and General J. G. Henderson-Brooks, have all written histories or their autobiographies. Adrian Gilbert intends to work on postgraduate research in this field. And Christine Walker epitomises the many who continually re-educate people about Anglo-lndian life and history.

June D'Rozario held the seat of Sanderson (Darwin) in the Northern Territory Assembly for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1977 to 1983, and Anne Warner was elected to the Queensland parliament for the ALP in 1983. Fred Cress's brilliant art, influenced by the spirit of India, brings riches to Australian life. Others have contributed to Australian society by their unique traditions as bridge-builders between East and West, as ambassadors of both Europe and India, and of multiculturalism. Their activities include teaching English (Vivienne Wheeler, through the English Speaking Union); researching rural development projects in the subcontinent (the late Major Clarry Goff); working voluntarily for the Epilepsy Foundation (Joe D'Souza); and reading and illustrating books for the blind (Noreen Lubeck). Indira Gandhi paid a warm tribute to "The Community, the whole country admires their spirit of zest and adventure". Malcolm Fraser encouraged hockey player Leslie Claudius to emigrate to Perth.

Anglo-Indians were among India's most international, emancipated and democratic people, a Westernised minority amongst the vast Indian population. Their families are now scattered all over the Commonwealth and extend world-wide. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->



I am very interested in knowing more about the Siddis etc. History buffs, please contribute.

Also, a humble request, please keep away the "aryan" nonsense and also tales of muslim invaders who refused to assimilate and were interested in only looting - like abdali, ghazni etc.

let's keep this thread an educational and informative one since many of us are not even aware of the diversity that we have.

<b>Befuddled Bongs of Bengal</b>


If someone asked a teenager student of India about what is common with Rabindranath Tagore, Subhash Chandra Bose, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Vivekanand, Satyajit Ray, Sharmeela Tagore, Kajol, Saurav Ganguly, Eden Garden, Sunderban, Black Magic ?

It should be no-brainer for him or her.

Welcome to the land of Jute AKA West Bengal! The land of Banerjees and Mukherjees, the land of infamous International Icon, do-nothing Jyoti Basu.


Dada ki khober? kaimon?


If we keep harping on the heritage of West Bengal it would be an endless session of praise for this land of fertile minds a la Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of Bhartiya Jana Sangh, who was allegedly murdered by congress high command.


But alas! with all the above pearls of this beautiful necklace called Bengal is of no use, this necklace has been sold to the highest bidder after the independence - The anti national elements comprising of communists and Muslims who have destroyed Bengal beyond repair, who don't deserve these pearls, For, neither they appreciate their value nor do they have such a prowess to appraise the quality of those pearls - They are busy doing what they are doing -- eroding these pearls of Hinduism beyond recognition with their subterfuge, which would not only destroy Bengal yet again, But would destroy India big time due to anti national's future representation of Jehadis at Lok Sabha - a law manufacturing unit of India - Imagine India where laws would be passed with Jehadic acquiescence.




Today west Bengal is brimful with Muslims of Indian origin and that of Bangladesh, who have found a natural abode in west Bengal due to some common factors, that of common language, quasi same environment where they can mix their identity and remain undetected, coupled with lax laws of the state and conducive political agenda of vote greedy communist politburo of the West Bengal sans national interests.



There is a scientific principle which says "water finds its own level," until the advent of lasers, the level was still checked by water. But the point I am coming at is this; Muslims are working on same principles as water and are finding their survival and thrift among naive Hindus where they mix up only for a required time till the situation be ripe for them to revolt.




Needless to say that above demographic time bomb comprising future jehadis, would not have no communist or congress fuse built into it. It would be naive to believe that person like Jyoti Basu does not have a hands on experience of ghastly murder and mayhem of Hindus during the direct action day in Calcutta and Noakhali with 77 percent Muslims, where million Hindus died and got converted by Muslim atrocities called jehad by Muslim league. How is it not possible for communist supremo senior Jyoti Basu da to not remember the golden words of H. S. Sahrawardy - " Muslim India means business" -- "Larke lenge Pakistan marke lenge Pakistan."


Somnolence or slumber, you define brothers.



The past heritage of Bengali babus is laid waste due to the upcoming jehadi culture of Islam which is already knocking many doors in several Muslim majority districts of West Bengal (nine of them) with vicious message of their gruesome Prophet who was a Warrior himself, thus no stranger to a bloody sword; http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/KeshtoPatel50324.htm


The now high command of reins of West Bengal should immediately reverse their course in favor of Hindu ethos and its interests in order to not repeat the same Direct Action Days of the past, which are sure to be cloned if the situation is left unchecked.


I am less interested in West Bengal's IT drive which would fill some pockets and create employment temporarily, something that would be ultimately taken over by Islamists of the future if Muslims are not stopped today. What good is Ambani's wealth for example if his factories would be looted by Muslims of tomorrow? Noakhali and hyderabad is the best example where rich Hindus became not only penniless, but they became destitute Muslims by subsequent threats, lets look and learn my Hindu brothers.


But are we ready for such a transformation which involves our mindset and ideologies, coupled with greed? Does not look like, if we examine the mahatma Gandhi of the past, with misplaced ideologies of ishwar Allah, which did not stop Pakistan anyway, and those of present Mulayam, Laloos of India, ready to sell Mother India for a song to our willing enemies.



What is wrong with these present brainy Bengalis? Why they want to mix ground beef in their rosgullah? why they cant stop their sharmilis going at nawab's haveli a la patuadi? Bengal has been split into two already, so is beautiful Sunderban, what more do they want to their detriment? why cant they be street smart as other Muslims are and chart their course for their future, which would involve their future generation vulnerable to same Direct Action Days if no action is taken NOW. Learn from YOUR own history if not Islam per se. Anything else would be uncivilized, looking at the crystal ball of the keshtos with 3D spectrum.


I am lost for words when I see that Bengalis look more at Jyoti Basu than Bose.It was, after all Subhash Chandra Bose, who was mainly instrumental in India's liberation war, it was him who put his life and limbs on the stake, it was him who Britisher were afraid of if we go by the words of Lord Clement Atlee, http://library.flawlesslogic.com/gandhi.htm and not duratma Gandhi who did not do enough, yet got acclaimed to the hilt, despite his gifting Indian territory to Pakistan on silver plate, thanks to Nehruvian secular cabal. Lest we forget, Bengal is the cousin state of famous Bihar of Laloo fame.


There is an adage which says "you can take the horse to the river, but you cannot make him drink," Hinduwadis are saying this to treacherous seculars who must act now in the interests of nation -- majority of which are Hindus, them (seculars) included.

With all the above, I am sure Subhash Chandra Bose must be turning in his grave in whichever part of the globe he be, for his Tyag is in vain, West Bengal is getting ready for one more split, Bengal tiger would be extinct sooner than later, with all these jehadi poachers at work.

Peace be upon his soul.

He remains my BOSE.
Jainake ami bhalo bashi.


Keshto Patel.