03-05-2005, 09:27 PM
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Who are the Anglo Indians
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Anglo-Indians, were more "Anglo" than "Indian". Their mother-tongue was English, and so was their religious upbringing, as were their customs and traditions. While most of them married within their own Anglo-Indian circle, there were many who continued to marry expatriate Englishmen. Very few, if any, married Indians. The same rigid social barriers that the British erected between themselves and the Anglo-Indians, also existed to isolate the Anglo-Indians from the vast majority of Indians.
Neither the British nor the Anglo-Indians made any attempt at appreciating Indian music, art, dance, literature or drama. The "natives" were seen as idol worshippers, and not particularly clean ones at that, with their habits of blowing their noses, spitting and defecating in public. Not to mention eating with their fingers while sitting cross legged on the ground. The aloofness between themselves and their Indian subjects were of little concern to the British, and even less so now that they were going âhomeâ. But the Anglo-Indians, left in a twilight zone of uncertainty, felt a bitter sense of betrayal â and dismay at the fact that Britain made no effort to offer her swarthier sons any hospitality in the land where their forefathers had been born.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Anglo-Indian identity is disappearing fast. Those who have found new lives abroad have merged into the mainstream. Other than the nostalgic reminiscences of an older generation (much of it irrelevant to the busy day-to-day concerns of their children and grand-children) their Indian past has all but faded into oblivion. In India, the Community are indistinguishable from their Indian friends and neighbours. The women wear saris or salwar kameez, the kids disco enthusiastically to Hindi film hits and watch Bollywood movies. Although English remains their first language, they speak the local vernacular with ease and fluency.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
How to destroy nation? Keep seperate identity for every group.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The anglo-Indians, children of mixed marriage, were called, the wheels, the cranks, the levers of the Empire building machinery
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<b>The early settlers left their womenfolk at home and so in the 17th and early 18th centuries, it was not uncommon for the Englishman to marry an Indian wife and adopt Indian ways. His children inherited his fortune and were sent home for education</b>.
The name Anglo-Indian was coin to describe an <b>India-returned Englishman</b>. It was not until the early 20th century that the word came to denote the mixed or Eurasian population in India.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Who are the Anglo Indians
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Anglo-Indians, were more "Anglo" than "Indian". Their mother-tongue was English, and so was their religious upbringing, as were their customs and traditions. While most of them married within their own Anglo-Indian circle, there were many who continued to marry expatriate Englishmen. Very few, if any, married Indians. The same rigid social barriers that the British erected between themselves and the Anglo-Indians, also existed to isolate the Anglo-Indians from the vast majority of Indians.
Neither the British nor the Anglo-Indians made any attempt at appreciating Indian music, art, dance, literature or drama. The "natives" were seen as idol worshippers, and not particularly clean ones at that, with their habits of blowing their noses, spitting and defecating in public. Not to mention eating with their fingers while sitting cross legged on the ground. The aloofness between themselves and their Indian subjects were of little concern to the British, and even less so now that they were going âhomeâ. But the Anglo-Indians, left in a twilight zone of uncertainty, felt a bitter sense of betrayal â and dismay at the fact that Britain made no effort to offer her swarthier sons any hospitality in the land where their forefathers had been born.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Anglo-Indian identity is disappearing fast. Those who have found new lives abroad have merged into the mainstream. Other than the nostalgic reminiscences of an older generation (much of it irrelevant to the busy day-to-day concerns of their children and grand-children) their Indian past has all but faded into oblivion. In India, the Community are indistinguishable from their Indian friends and neighbours. The women wear saris or salwar kameez, the kids disco enthusiastically to Hindi film hits and watch Bollywood movies. Although English remains their first language, they speak the local vernacular with ease and fluency.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
How to destroy nation? Keep seperate identity for every group.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The anglo-Indians, children of mixed marriage, were called, the wheels, the cranks, the levers of the Empire building machinery
...
<b>The early settlers left their womenfolk at home and so in the 17th and early 18th centuries, it was not uncommon for the Englishman to marry an Indian wife and adopt Indian ways. His children inherited his fortune and were sent home for education</b>.
The name Anglo-Indian was coin to describe an <b>India-returned Englishman</b>. It was not until the early 20th century that the word came to denote the mixed or Eurasian population in India.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->