APPENDIX 4
NOTES AND REFERENCES
See also, Gidney, H. (1934) 'The Future of the
Anglo-Indian Community" THE ASIATIC REVIEW Vol.LXXXIII
pp.27-42.
Anyone who takes the trouble to study the
past history of India will not only be
astounded, but will hang his head in shame,
when he reads of the cruel orders of
oppression and repression that were passed by
the Directors of the early John Company. One
can never forget the unjust and uncalled for
order passed by one of the Directors, Lord
Valentia, when he, without any reason except
perhaps the power secured by mixed races in
other parts of the world, and entertaining
similar fears of the Anglo-Indian community,
by a stroke of the pen disinherited us of all
appointments, both civil and military, in
India, except as drummers, farriers, and
musicians. This was the reward given us
after we had shown our value during the early
days of the British rule in India, (p.35)
See also, Moorhouse, G. (1983) India Britannica London:
Paladin Books. Anglo-Indians
... found themselves in a social no man's
land between the rulers and the ruled, a sort
of outcast society by superior and inferior
decree. (p . 138)
Moorhouse, observed that if Anglo-Indians
... possessed a keener sense of history, if
they had attended more carefully to the
political winds that were beginning to stir
towards the end of the nineteenth century,
the Anglo-Indians might have served their own
future better than they did. (p.142)
See also, Nundy, A. (1900) 'The Eurasian Problem in
India' THE IMPERIAL AND ASIATIC QUARTERLY REVIEW AND
ORIENTAL AND COLONIAL RECORD Vol.9 Part 17018 pp.56-73.
No serious attempt was made to infuse life into
a community, not only indifferent to its own
interests, but practically inert, and to
stimulate it with a desire for self-respect,
self-help, and mutual co-operation, so that by
a combined effort there would be some chance of
promoting the moral, mental and physical
welfare of the individuals of which it is
composed, (p.58)
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