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Showing posts with label british india. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

In India, Anglo-Indian culture is fading fast | Seattle Times Newspaper

Breakfast tea from a cup and saucer, Agatha Christie murder mysteries and Mills & Boon romances, a weekly visit from the hairdresser who sets a dowager's delicate hair in a 1940s-style wave. Sometimes a tailor comes to make copies of the garments beloved by Anglo-Indian women of a certain age. Floral tea dresses, for example.

Nation & World In India, Anglo-Indian culture is fading fast Seattle Times Newspaper

Fears for the decline of Anglo-Indian cooking

Will Anglo-Indian recipes and cooking disappear in India? It will over a period of time, as Indian cooking starts to be called Anglo-Indian cooking and the authentic anglo-indian recipes are forgotten. Where are the Grandmothers and Mothers of the 1940s-1960s today, who would cook "the genuine" anglo-indian dishes?

BBC News - Fears for the decline of Anglo-Indian cooking

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Provinces of British India

British colonial authorities ruled India with two administrative systems: About 60% of territory of the Indian sub-continent were provinces and territories directly under British colonial administration, 40% of the sub-continent were native Indian ("princely") States under direct treaty relations with British India (A-J and K-Z).

Provinces of British India

British India and Genealogy Studies

Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies