The name is absent

4. Extension of European patronage.

Within the East India Company, nepotism formally existed
through various forms of patronage. At this time, Anglo-
Indians were formally excluded from benefitting from this
form of sponsored mobility. (38)

5. Ancrlo-Indians face penalties and reprisals

By 1798, the East India Company was faced with the threat
of Tipu Sultan of Mysore. At about the same time the
Mahratta Chiefs Bhonsla, Sindhia and Holkar had declared
war on the Company. A Proclamation in 1798 summoned the
Anglo-Indians back to fight for the Company and threatened
the community with severe penalties if they failed to
comply. But by 1808, when the danger was over, Sir George
Barlow, the Governor General, passed an order discharging
all Anglo-Indians from the Company's Regiments. (39)

6. The stereotyping of Anglo-Indians as turncoats

The Anglo-Indian community was beleaguered on all sides.
The Indians who had rebelled in 1798 refused to trust the
Anglo-Indians. They saw the Anglo-Indians as having
deserted them in 1798. The previous point indicated, the
Anglo-Indian community had little choice in the matter.
The Indians' perception was of a community which was loyal
to the father's side, rather than to the mother's side.
The distrust towards the Anglo-Indians is still evident in
Indian society today.

7. Single-parent families, orphans and the impoverishment
of the Anglo-Indian community

The Anglo-Indians had also suffered casualties, and many
children were left without their fathers. Yet provision
for orphans remained largely at inadequate pre-war levels.
This was the beginning of the gradual increase in poverty
in the community. (40) By the end of the eighteenth
century poverty was widespread in the community.

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