... managed to "get away" in time from India,
otherwise the programme could have been
describing me or my family.
3. Anglo-Indians were disheartened
. . . that once again in the history of India,
we were being depicted as failures.
There were also comments which compared the Anglo-Indians
and Indians studying in the same school.
I know that Indians who attend the same school
as Anglo-Indians all do very well in the
examinations. The Indian students complete
Class Twelve and enter University. The Anglo-
Indians drop out of school. Why can't Anglo-
Indians benefit from the same educational
system? Something has gone radically wrong
with the system.
These comments, and the questions raised by both the
researcher's own educational experience and later research,
demanded answers. The answers could only be found by
conducting research.
The researcher received positive support and encouragement
from the Department of International and Comparative
Education at the University of London, Institute of
Education to undertake such a study.
A decision was taken by the researcher to discover the
relationship between education (or the lack of it) within
the Anglo-Indian community and the fact that it was
poverty-stricken and unemployed in India. In other words,
why is the Anglo-Indian community inadequately qualified in
India, when the Constitution of India protects the
community's rights to own and administer its own schools?
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