Channel 4 television programme (1986) was shown in two one
hour episodes. The British Film Institute has a copy of
the programme. Lingarajapuram a large slum in Bangalore
was featured in the television programme. There were many
Anglo-Indian families who live in this slum.
(9) The subsequent quotations are from Lobo, A. (1988) op.
cit., During the field study conducted in India in 1990,
an effort was made to contact the Anglo-Indian social
worker in Lingarajapuram slum in Bangalore who had appeared
in the Channel 4 programme. She and her husband agreed to
be interviewed. They introduced the researcher to an
Anglo-Indian family in Lingarajapuram, who participated in
the survey. Details of this study of Anglo-Indians living
in Lingarajapuram can be found in Appendix 5.
(10) See, Naidis, M. (1963) 'British Attitudes Toward the
Anglo-Indians' THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY Part 3 pp.407-
22 Naidis described the Anglo-Indians as
... caught between the colonial society of the
paramount power and native society. The
Anglo-Indians were socially accepted by
neither, (p.407)
(11) See, Wilson, M.B. (1929) The Domiciled European and
Anglo-Indian Race of India There is no publisher or place
of publication, except a preface written by Sir Henry
Gidney in 1928 (Calcutta) . This is the first time that
this book is attributed to the correct person. Sir Henry
Gidney mentions Mrs. M.B. Wilson as the writer of the book
in his preface. The book had appeared under the name of
J.B.Smart, who was Mrs. Wilson's brother. Mrs. Wilson
stressed the "whiteness" of the Anglo-Indian community.
She stated that the Anglo-Indians were
. . . white by birth, and domicile, we are
Indian, yet by manners, custom, speech,
education and above all our Christian religion
we form a separate and distinctive white race
as compared with the indigenous Indian, (p.5)
This argument put forward by an Anglo-Indian writer, brings
into focus the "white" issue in the community. The Anglo-
Indian
... race is ... beyond question or cavil ...
white by birth and domicile ... we form a
separate and distinctive white race as
compared with the indigenous Indian. (p.5)
It is important to note that M.B. Wilson only accepted
Domiciled Europeans as JVnglo-Indians, hence on page two she
mentions the barristers, doctors, engineers and magistrates
in the Domiciled European Community who were not Anglo-
Indians .
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