See a 1 sо, The Anglo-Indian Suirvev Committee's Report
(1959) op. cit., (p.2) By 1959, The Anglo-Indian Survey
Committee's Report better known as The Baptist Report,
stated that 31% of Anglo-Indians had studied beyond
matriculation. Out of 1207 individuals, only 5 men were
graduates. The survey stated that 40% of Anglo-Indians
lived in huts and there was frustration, indifference,
distrust of Anglo-Indian associations. Higher education
was "discarded in favour of technical or professional
training, which however cannot get to a high level unless
backed by general education", (p.2) See also, Brennan,
N.L. (1979) op. cit., (p.9, p.lll, p.121, p.160). See
also, Abel, E.P. (1988) The Anglo-Indian Community:
Survival in India Delhi: Chanakya Publications (pp.93-4)
Abel attributes this fact to an inability "to support
their families and cannot afford the period of study".
(p.94)
(7) In 1786 repressive policies by the East India
Company marked the beginning of disadvantage suffered by
the Anglo-Indians. See Chapter 2 for a discussion of
these repressive policies. A pattern of economic
inequality was set for Anglo-Indians by the end of the
eighteenth century. The relative powerlessness of the
community after the repressive policies and loss of trust
of the Indian princes in 1798 and the Hindus and Muslims
in 1857 created a community, reconciled to their
subordinacy. Each generation of Anglo-Indians
transmitted the subordinate status, so that by 1907,
Anglo-Indians were still struggling to achieve mass
elementary education. See, Abel, E. (1988) op. cit.,
(p.72) see also, Lee, M.H. (1912) The Eurasian: A
Social Problem M.A. Dissertation Microfilm. Chicago:
University of Chicago. Anglo-Indians were being
described in 1912 as lacking "strength in muscle, mind
and will", (p.12); see also, Hedin, E.L. (1934) op.
cit., p.168 .
The Anglo-Indians were being "ostracized by both English
and Indians". (p.168) See also, Grimshaw, A.D. (1959)
'The Anglo-Indian Community, The Integration of a
Marginal Group' THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Vol. XVIII
February 1959 pp.227-240. Their position was becoming
"more tenuous and unstable", (p.230) See, Malelu, S.J.
(1964) The Anglo-Indians: A Problem in Marginality
Doctoral Thesis University Microfilms The Ohio State
University.By 1947, the community was poised "on the
periphery of two social worlds and its link with the one
served only to vitiate its standing in the other".
(p.78); see also, Naidis, R. (1963) op.cit., (p.421)
The few Anglo-Indians who were successful educated their
children in England. These Anglo-Indians merged into the
European community, because they were "of sufficiently
light pigmentation to pass for European" (p.421). See
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