Anglo-Indians Return to Glory Community

Anglo-Indians Return to Glory Community Profile by Warren Brown

Slogan: Anglo-Indians Are An Unbreakable Community

History: Anglo-Indians are a minority mixed-race (British-European and Indian) community, which originated in India during the period of European and British rule. The community was result of the progeny of European and British men with Indian women. The offspring of these unions were referred to as Eurasians and Anglo-Indians.

Social Presence: Anglo-Indians have been and continue to be an integral part of the Indian nation for over four hundred years. The community of Anglo-Indians have been a vital part of the Indian work force having served in the various sectors of Indian industry, as Teachers in the field of Education, Train drivers in the field of Transport, Secretaries for Multinational Corporations, as Sales and Banking Executives, sport persons in the sphere of sporting and in so many other fields of endeavour.

Present: The Anglo-Indian community has now come under threat when its representation of two seats in Indian Parliament has been removed.

This action by the Indian Government has left an indelible scar on the minds and in the hearts of all community members in India.

There are still a large proportion of Anglo-Indians present in India to this day. This is however not the view of the Indian government.

In order to verify the total numbers of Anglo-Indians present in India today, it would make sense if the government took the time to take an authentic audit of community numbers with the assistance of the several Anglo-Indian leaders, clubs, associations and organizations which are still very present in India.

Plan of Action: this is the time for all organizations, leaders, associations and clubs to rally the whole Anglo-Indian community in India and abroad to make the presence of the community known in India, as well as to bring this to the attention of the Indian government. The community needs it proper representation in Indian Parliament, as it ensures the political existence of the community as noted in the Constitution of India.

The Anglo-Indians Exist Today Campaign 2020

Slogan: Anglo-Indians Contribute to the Indian Nation

Motto: Anglo-Indians Will Not Be Forgotten

Aim: A Community that Stands Together will Never Be Broken.

Objectives:

(i)To ensure that the community is represented in Indian Parliament.

2. To make the community's presence known widely in India

3. To promote Anglo-Indian culture, history and heritage

Four Step Plan:

1. All Anglo-Indian leaders, organizations, clubs and associations need to join forces to ensure that the community gets representation parliament.

2. To maintain a complete Database with details of all Anglo-Indians in India today.

3. To educate Anglo-Indians about their history, heritage and culture.

4. To assist all community members in India, in the fields of education, sports and all other spheres of industry in India.

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Memory, identity and productive nostalgia by Dr. Alison Blunt

Anglo-Indian Home and Identity by Dr. Alison Blunt.

"Home and identity have been important themes in recent work on people of mixed descent and on diaspora (see, for example, Arnott, 1994, Brah, 1996 and Ifekwunigwe, 1999), and have been the central focus of my research on Anglo-Indian women in the fifty years before and after Independence. My research spans the community in India, Britain and Australia, and explores home and identity in relation to imperialism, nationalism, decolonization and multiculturalism on three key scales (Blunt, forthcoming). On a household scale, I investigate social reproduction and material culture and explore the European and Indian influences that have fashioned a distinctively Anglo-Indian domesticity. On a national scale, I study the intersections of home, identity and nationality for Anglo-Indians, and how ideas about Britain as fatherland coexisted with ideas about India as motherland. Finally, I consider transnational geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indians living both in an imperial diaspora in British India and across a wider diaspora since Independence."

Memory, identity and productive nostalgia: