The name is absent

respondents discussed the need for a religious educational
policy which would develop and encourage an understanding
between Christians, and non Christians.

The next section offers empirical evidence which supports
the three categories of responses from adults.

3.2. The analysis of the answers given by adult
respondents .

Category One:

The Anglo-Indian respondents had not given religion and
education much thought, because "Christianity was taken for
granted in our schools." (5) Christianity

. . . must continue to be linked with
Anglo-Indian education, because it was a
minority community's religion. (6)

The issue of religion is a sensitive one and

... the unassailable position of Christianity
in Anglo-Indian schools is protected by the
Constitution of India Art.30(1). (7)

Category Two:

Religion and education were linked to promote personal
development and increase opportunities for all Anglo-
Indians who wished to attend these elitist Christian
schools. The need was to eliminate the socio-geographical
division between these upper class schools and the under
class of poor Anglo-Indians because the poorest and the
lowest in the community could not be educated in the
schools.(8)

Christian by name, but I wonder if the schools
are Christian by practice? The schools do not

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