The name is absent

For the sake of clarity it is important to:

identify the community as it is now;

locate the style of its educational

system now;

specify its current
position.

It is the view of the researcher that, surprisingly, Anglo-
Indians do not consider themselves disadvantaged by their
educational system.

3. The Anglo-Indian Community now and its Schools.

The Anglo-Indians in India are of mixed parentage and are
a small minority community in modern India. The
community's singularity is partly explained by its unique
combination of language, religion and race. The
Anglo-Indians' mother tongue is English. Their religion
is Christianity. Their parentage is European and Indian.
More formally, as the Indian Constitution states in Article
366(2), an Anglo-Indian is a

... person whose father or any of whose other
male progenitors in the male line is or was of
European descent but who is domiciled within
the territory of India and is or was born
within such territories of parents habitually
resident therein and not established there for
temporary purposes only. (2)

This definition of the Anglo-Indian in India will be used
to describe the community, although, as will be made clear
later in Chapter 6, its use is problematic. (3)

The protection of the community's rights are also enshrined
in the Constitution of India. Article 29(1) and Article
30(1) state

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