The name is absent

Englishmen from the upper classes began to arrive in India,
attracted by the wealth which was accumulated by the
retired East India Company officials, who would flaunt
their possessions in England. English women began to
arrive in India, and for the first time

... their coming was quickly followed by the
establishment of a colour line, the attachment
of a decided stigma to marital or extramarital
relations with Indian women. (33)

The seeds for the repressive policies of the 1780s were
sown in a field of racism.

The repressive policies occurred initially because of
rampant nepotism among the East India Company's officers.
Employment was only to be given to Englishmen who were
educated in England. Jknglo-Indians were also being
educated in England. They were returning to influential
positions in the East India Company. To this was soon
added a growing fear among the Company's Directors that the
Anglo-Indians would stage a similar revolution to the one
by the mulattoes of Haiti which had occurred in 1791.

Tknglo-Indians were debarred from both military and civil
service in the company leading to disadvantage and the
impoverishment of the community. The repressive policies
that the English adopted towards the Anglo-Indians at this
time were comprehensive. Seven, in particular, stand out.

!.Class differentials in access to selective education

In March 1786 the first repressive policies against the
Anglo-Indian community started. The Anglo-Indian wards of
the Upper Orphanage School were not given permission by the
Company to proceed to England to complete their education.
The reason offered by the Company was based on racism in
that the reason given was that the

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