Anglo indian

Now only a handful are left.

'Anglo-India and the End of Empire' @hurstpublishers UK @oupacademic USA, 2022, @harpercollinsin India A startling new history of a community’s struggle to be heard as Empire waned in India, with echoes for all those of mixed heritage. ‘As this ambiguous, hybrid Anglo-Indian identity is stretched to breaking point, we get a valuable insight, available from no other position, into what was at stake in the racial categories of the Empire. Original, fascinating and gripping.’ — Benjamin…

I identify myself as Anglo-Indian. Because of my light skin I would look at myself as being different. I also don't speak any Indian languages as my father’s first language is English so we mainly spoke English at home. My mother was born and raised in Mombasa, Kenya and later moved to India. She s

The numbers of Anglo-Indians — Indian citizens whose paternal line can be traced to Europe — have been dwindling since the British left India in 1947.

Derailed By History: The Anglo-Indian Story

I spent the first sixteen years of my life in India and I loved it. It was my home and has, in many respects, forever remained so. I was fluently bilingual in Hindi and English by the age of fou…

Here's some nice shots of Kabul from 1979-1987. They are mainly pictures from Universities in Kabul. Kabul in 1979 Factory workers in 1980 Kabul University Students 1981 At the Polytechnic Institute in Kabul 1981 Cooking class 1981 Factory Worker 1981 University Students 1983 Typing Class 1983 Kabul 1984 Factory Worker 1984 University Students 1986 Rally 1986 Chemistry Teacher in Kabul 1986 Two VERY different styles on the streets of Kabul in 1986 Medical Institute of Kabul…

Basudeb profiles Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, an unsung Anglo-Indian woman novelist, penned 18 novels, short stories, many screenplays, anthologies, and encyclopedias, etc., between 1955 and 2011. Known as the Indian Jane Austin, her writings show influences of many other novelists. Read more about her, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. Another woman novelist who

The anglo indians usually perform migratory actions addressing their home lands of descent which started after the partition of India.The Anglo-Indian diaspora was a result of the accelerated migration of Anglo-Indians from India to Britain after India gained independence from Britain in 1947. This article specifies on the anglo indian communities and their migration. The Anglo-Indian community were the British who came to India in the seventeenth century and left in the twentieth century.

Mixed Race Identity: Anglo-Indians