Fifty-five percent of the Anglo-Indian respondents were
male and forty-five percent were female. As a percentage
of the sample the Anglo-Indian respondents were sixty-three
percent. Indians were twenty-nine percent, Indian
Christians were two percent, and Khasi and Europeans were
six percent of the sample.
Among the Indians and Indian Christians the distribution
between males and females was evenly balanced. There were
no male respondents among the Khasi and European
respondents .
Almost a third of the respondents were students. Sixty-
three percent of the respondents were Anglo-Indians,
twenty-nine percent Indians, the remaining eight percent
being Indian Christians, Khasi and Europeans.
The two towns with the highest number of respondents (one
hundred and three) were Devlali in Maharashtra state and
Ketti in Tamil Nadu state. This reflects the two
residential co-educational Anglo-Indian schools. The total
number of student respondents in these two schools was one
hundred and seventy.
The two capital cities of Bombay and Faridabad had the
smallest number of respondents - twenty-nine and thirty-one
respectively. In Bombay the students who were interviewed
were adults in the University of Bombay.
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