The name is absent

psychologically. (64)

Anthony will go down in the history of Anglo-Indian
education as the man who protected the Anglo-Indian's right
to be educated in English. He removed the isolationist tag
from Anglo-Indian schools in a brilliant courtroom battle
with the Education Department of Bombay state in 1954.

In 1954, Justice Das of the Supreme Court offered the most
balanced description of Anglo-Indian education. He observed
during the Bombay School's Case that:

... a minority like the Anglo-Indian
community, which is based, inter alia, on
religion and language, has the fundamental
right to conserve its language, script and
culture under Article 29(1) and has the right
to establish and administer educational
institutions of their choice under Article
30(1), surely then there must be implicit in
such fundamental right the right to impart
instruction in their own institutions to the
children of their own community in their own
language. To hold otherwise will be to
deprive Article 29(1) and Article 30(1) of the
greater part of their contents. (65)

Survival of Anglo-Indian education was the root cause for
the Bombay Schools' Case in 1954. The Bombay government
had issued an order in December 1953, which prohibited the
admission of Indian students to Anglo-Indian schools. The
discrimination lay in the fact, that the Hindi language
medium schools could accept Indians and Anglo-Indians.

The Anglo-Indian enrolment in 1953 was approximately one
third of the total student population in Anglo-Indian
schools. The schools were facing closure without two-
thirds of the Indian student population. The order
infringed on the fundamental rights of parents to choose an

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