INTRODUCTION
NOTES AND REFERENCES
(1) See, Lobo, A.I.G. (1986) Christian Immigrants from
India and Pakistan to Britain after 1947: Their Education
and Aspirations Unpublished Dissertation (B.Ed. Hons.)
Bulmershe College of Higher Education, University of
Reading; see also, Lobo, A.I.G. (1988) Anglo-Indians in
Britain:_____An Educational Perspective of an Urban
Ethnic-Minority Community Unpublished Dissertation Master
of Arts Degree in Urban Education, The University of
London, Institute of Education.
(2) In 1954, the Bombay Schools' Case assured the Anglo-
Indians that their educational system would remain intact
and continue to be part of the protected, autonomous sector
of Indian education. The Supreme Court's judgment stated
that the community was a religious as well as a linguistic
minority, and that the majority could not force its will
upon the minority, because this results in denying the
minority the right to establish and administer educational
institutions of their choice. See, DeSouza, A. A. (1976)
Anglo-Indian Education: A Study of its Origins and Growth
in Bengal up to 1960 New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
(p. 232); see also, Kumar, A. (1985) Cultural and
Educational Rights of the Minorities under Indian
Constitution New Delhi; Deep & Deep Publications (p.130
and p.240) .
(3) This comment was made by a teacher in Barnes School,
Devlali, Maharashtra, in July 1990 during the field work.
(4) The scholarships offered by the European and
Anglo-Indian Association to poor Europeans and
Anglo-Indians were known as "freeships". This was a
derogatory term applied to Anglo-Indians who had to apply
for assistance to pay for their schooling in Anglo-Indian
schools. "Freeship" scholars rarely "amounted to anything,
because when it is free you don't care too much. They just
waste the Association's money and the teacher's time."
This comment was made by an Anglo-Indian in 1992, who was
concerned about the apathy among Anglo-Indians on
"freeships" in a residential school in Tamil Nadu.
The researcher's father and his two sisters were "freeship"
scholars in an Anglo-Indian residential school in Bombay
between 1903-1920. The researcher's father described his
experience as a "freeship" scholar.
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