Their comments were collected during the two researches
conducted by the researcher in 1986 and 1988 in Britain
These comments were:
Why can't the schools do something about the
poverty? I don't know what, but, I doubt they
even think about it? Jobs are linked with
educational qualifications, and the schools
must be held accountable to some extent for
the poverty and unemployment in the community,
and,
There are too many Anglo-Indians who drop out
of school? Why does this happen?
Anglo-Indians do not even go to their
Anglo-Indian schools. They are too poor to
attend their own schools.
These remarks were repeated often by British Anglo-Indians.
The stories vividly described the stark poverty of the
community.
My brother's children came to greet me at the
railway station, wearing no shoes.
and,
Some of my friends could not afford a pair of
socks for the Christmas party at the Railway
Institute and Jhansi can become cold in
winter.
This disconcerted the visitors and many of them privately
acknowledged that they had made the right decision to leave
India.
The boys in the community are worse off than
the girls. They still think someone will turn
up and offer them a job, like old British
days, when we got jobs easily on the railways.
But, you need good qualifications to secure
employment in India today. The boys just
waste their time and many of them are goondas
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