The name is absent

69-74 Anglo-Indians 2 women and 4 men 70-80

Christian Bangalore 4 August

This was an unsatisfactory interview, because only 6
people turned up, instead of fifteen, and the leader of
the group in this community of retired Jknglo-Indians, was
most disappointed. These six Anglo-Indians had retired,
and were deeply concerned about the poverty in the
community, the lack of language skills which ended in
unemployment, because Anglo-Indians were "dropping-out"
of Anglo-Indian schools. They all commented on the
missing middle-class structure in the Anglo-Indian
community in 1990.

CITY:        BOMBAY

STATE:       MAHARASHTRA

DATES:       22 July, 26-28 July and 20-28 August

TOTAL:        2 9

75-88 Profile numbers 75-88 were a group of 13 Indians

and 1 Anglo-Indian. There were 6 women and 8 men.

The Anglo-Indian was a Christian and the 12 Indians were
Hindus. The group interview took place on 24 August on
the Kalina campus of the University of Bombay, in a
lecture theatre. They were well-informed, articulate
and cosmopolitan in their outlook. Eight of these post
graduate students in Political Science had attended
Anglo-Indian schools where,

... we learnt English, and even took part in
plays. Religion was never a hot issue in any
of the schools, we just did our own things
and this was a shame, because I think we
could have learnt so much from one another.
I think communal segregation starts in
schools .

89_______Anglo-Indian man 40-55 Christian Bombay 23

August

He was the Principal of an Anglo-Indian school. He was
in the middle of a crisis concerning the salary structure
of the school staff, and he said,

It is so difficult today to please everyone.

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