The name is absent

further education. The Anglo-Indian system must add
three more years of higher education. This would mirror
the Indian Educational Formula, namely, 10+2+3.

An Anglo-Indian University College would be a centre of
excellence for the Arts, Education, Humanities and
Sciences. At least two Anglo-Indian residential schools
in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu and two day schools in
Tamil Nadu and Kerala have extensive acreage, which
awaits development.

Barnes School (residential) in Maharashtra, Laidlaw
Memorial College (residential) in Ketti, Doveton Corrie
School (day) in Madras and the C.C.P.L.M. Anglo-Indian
High School (day) in Perumanoor, Cochin could be the
venues of four Anglo-Indian University Colleges
affiliated to the Universities of Bombay, Madras and
Kerala.

The International Community of Anglo-Indians has
expressed an interest in this research. (25) Many of
these professional Anglo-Indians attended Anglo-Indian
schools before emigrating. Expansion in the future must
be vertical into higher education, and not horizontal
into secondary and further education.

It could be a global Anglo-Indian initiative to take
Anglo-Indian education in India, into University
education. The support and enthusiasm of American,
Australian, British, Canadian and Anglo-Indians in India
should be harnessed to build University Colleges. While
deeply committed to an education in the medium of
English, the University Colleges could offer bilingual
courses in the Arts, Education, Humanities and Sciences.

The initiative would offer a project to Anglo-Indians
searching for a composite identity which could bring the

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