To my husband Gerard and children Rupert, Maeve and
Vanessa: That they may understand the cultural and
educational roots of the Anglo-Indian community.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank all those, particularly in India, the
United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada who
have directly or indirectly contributed to this thesis.
I want to express my thanks to my husband Gerard, who
encouraged and supported me in making the thesis a reality.
His insights into the Anglo-Indian community were
invaluable.
I am greatly indebted to my Supervisor, Crispin Jones, for
his encouragement and the deep interest he took in helping
me to bring this thesis to fruition. I am grateful to Dr.
Robert Cowen for his advice and support.
I am also indebted to Withbert Payne and Blair Williams of
the United States of America, for their financial support
for the field study. I must express my appreciation and
thanks to Yvonne Rozario, a school friend of mine in India,
who was my coordinator for the field study. I would also
like to express my appreciation to Warren O'Rourke of
Canada for his encouragement and enthusiasm for the
research.
I would like to acknowledge the assistance given to me in
India, by the late Frank Anthony, Alan Baker, Sheila
Charles, Geoffrey Francis, Winston Gardner, Sheila Irani,
the late "ML" Menzies, Stephen Padua, Margaret Pathak, Bill
Philips and Sydney Rebeiro. They clearly understood the
objective of this study and introduced me to the
educational institutions and the respondents.