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CHAPTER 2

INDIA'S EUROPEAN CONNECTION
1500-1786:
THE ANGLO-INDIAN SCHOOLS
AND THE ANGLO-INDIAN COMMUNITY

1. Introduction

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the impact of
the collective aims of the European traders, soldiers,
administrators, politicians and missionaries on Anglo-
Indian education. The education of Anglo-Indians was a by-
product of the colonialists' own expansionist temporal and
spiritual objectives. (1) Anglo-Indian education was
incidental to the ambitions of Europeans colonialists and
missionaries. This by-product of colonial and missionary
ambitions, known as "Anglo-Indian education" had great
implications for the Anglo-Indian community.

This chapter supports the view that, in order to understand
the predicament of Anglo-Indians in contemporary India, it
is necessary to understand the history of this community.
The Anglo-Indian education system was organised to meet its
supposed educational needs under the colonialists.

The structure of this chapter is as follows:

(i)       The creation of the Anglo-Indian community

(ii) The impact of colonialism and the missions on the
Anglo-Indian community

(iii) The development of Anglo-Indian education in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

(iv) A brief conclusion pulls together the chapter and
draws out the key elements of the analysis that

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