Anglo-Indians are people who have mixed Indian and British ancestry, or people of British descent born or living in India, now mainly historical in the latter sense. The British residents in India used the term "Eurasians" for people of mixed European and Indian descent (cf. George Orwell's ''Burmese Days''). The Oxford Dictionary's definition of "Anglo-Indian" is "Of mixed British and Indian parentage, of Indian descent but born or living in Britain, or chiefly historical of British descent or birth but living or having lived long in India".
The Anglo-Indian community in its modern sense is a distinct, small minority community originating in India. They consist of people from mixed British and Indian ancestry whose native language is English. An Anglo-Indian's British ancestry was usually bequeathed paternally.
''Article 366(2)'' of the Indian Constitution defines Anglo-Indian as "a person whose father or any of whose other male progenitors in the male line is or was of European descent but who is domiciled within the territory of India and is or was born within such territory of parents habitually resident therein and not established there for temporary purposes only". This definition extends "Anglo-Indian" to include Indians of purely European (male) ancestry.
This definition also embraces the descendants of the Indians from the old Portuguese colonies of both the Coromandel and Malabar Coasts, who joined the East India Company as mercenaries and brought their families with them. Similarly the definition includes mestiços (mixed Portuguese and Indian) of Goa and people of Indo-French, and Indo-Dutch descent.
Anglo-Indians formed a significant portion of the minority community in India before independence, but today more live outside India than within it. The Anglo-Indian population in India dwindled from roughly 500,000 in 1947 to fewer than 150,000 by 2010. Many emigrated to the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and the United States.
The term should not be confused with the similar-sounding "Indo-Anglian," an adjective applied to literature in English produced by Indian authors.
Over generations, Anglo-Indians intermarried with other Anglo-Indians to form a community that developed a culture of its own. Anglo-Indian cuisine, dress, speech and religion all served to further segregate Anglo-Indians from the native population. They established a school system focused on the English language and culture and formed social clubs and associations to run functions like their regular dances on occasions like Christmas and Easter.
Over time Anglo-Indians were specifically recruited into the Customs and Excise, Post and Telegraphs, Forestry Department, The Railways and teaching professions - but they were employed in many other fields as well. A number of factors fostered a strong sense of community among Anglo-Indians. Their English language school system, their Anglo-centric culture, and their Christian beliefs in particular helped bind them together.
Originally, under Regulation VIII of 1813, they were excluded from the British legal system and in Bengal became subject to the rule of Mohammedan law outside Calcutta - and yet found themselves without any caste or status amongst those who were to judge them. In 1821, a pamphlet entitled "Thoughts on how to better the condition of Indo-Britons" by a "Practical Reformer," was written to promote the removal of prejudices existing in the minds of young Eurasians against engaging in trades. This was followed up by another pamphlet, entitled "An Appeal on behalf of Indo-Britons." Prominent Eurasians in Calcutta formed the "East Indian Committee" with a view to send a petition to the British Parliament for the redress of their grievances. Mr. John William Ricketts, the first noble pioneer in the Eurasian cause, volunteered to proceed to England. His mission was successful, and on his return to India, by way of Madras, he received quite an ovation from his countrymen in that presidency; and was afterwards warmly welcomed in Calcutta, where a report of his mission was read at a public meeting held in the Calcutta Town Hall. In April 1834, in obedience to an Act of Parliament passed in August 1833, the Indian Government was forced to grant government jobs to Anglo-Indians.
During the independence movement, many Anglo-Indians identified (or were assumed to identify) with British rule, and, therefore, incurred the distrust and hostility of Indian nationalists. Their position at independence was difficult. They felt a loyalty to a British "home" that most had never seen and where they would gain little social acceptance. (''Bhowani Junction'' touches on the identity crisis faced by the Anglo-Indian community during the independence struggle.) They felt insecure in an India that put a premium on participation in the independence movement as a prerequisite for important government positions.
Most Anglo-Indians left the country in 1947, hoping to make a new life in the United Kingdom or elsewhere in the Commonwealth of Nations, such as Australia or Canada. The exodus continued through the 1950s and 1960s and by the late 1990s most had left with many of the remaining Anglo-Indians still aspiring to leave.
Like the Parsi community, the Anglo-Indians are essentially urban dwellers. Unlike the Parsis, the mass migrations saw more of the better educated and financially secure Anglo-Indians depart for other Commonwealth nations.
There has been a resurgence in celebrating Anglo-Indian culture in the 21st Century, in the form of International Anglo-Indian Reunions and in publishing books on Anglo-Indians. There have been seven reunions with the latest being held in August 2007 in Toronto. Books on Anglo-Indians recently published include ''Anglo-Indians - Vanishing Remnants of a Bygone Era'' published (2002), ''Haunting India'' published (2003), ''Voices on the Verandah'' published (2004), ''The Way We Were - Anglo-Indian Chronicles'' published (2006) and ''The Way We Are - An Anglo-Indian Mosaic'' published (2008).
In 1902, Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie and Lord George Hamilton expressed concerns over Indian students, ''rajas'' (royalty), ''sepoys'' (soldiers) and ''lascars'' (seamen) in Britain having relationships with local white females. In 1909, the journalist C. Hamilton McGuiness noted that it was common to see Indian males with white females "on the tops of buses, in the streets, at the theatres and almost everywhere one goes". He advocated police intervention against such interracial liaisons to protect the "honour" of white females, but without much success.
During World War I, there were 135,000 Indian soldiers serving in Britain and France, where many intermarried and cohabited with white females. While French authorities were not concerned with interracial relationships, British authorities attempted to limit such activity by implementing curfews for wounded Indian troops in British hospitals and preventing female nurses from taking care of them. Following World War I, there was a large surplus of females in Britain, and there were increasing numbers of seamen arriving from abroad, mainly the Indian subcontinent. This led to increased intermarriage and cohabitation with local white females, which raised concerns over miscegenation and led to several race riots at the time. Concerns were repeatedly voiced over white adolescent girls forming relationships with Indian seamen in the 1920s. In the 1920s to 1940s, several writers raised concerns over an increasing 'mixed-breed' population, born mainly from foreign Asian (mostly Indian) fathers and local white mothers, occasionally out of wedlock. They denounced white girls who mixed with Asian men as 'shameless' and called for a ban on the breeding of 'half-caste' children, though these attempts at imposing anti-miscegenation laws were unsuccessful. As Indian women began arriving to Britain in large numbers from the 1970s, mostly as family members, a majority of Indians in Britain chose to marry among one another, leading to decreased intermarriage rates but an overall population growth in the British Indian community.According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, British Asian men from all South Asian ethnic groups intermarried with another ethnic group (including white and black) more than Asian women. Among Asians, British Indians intermarried with a different ethnic group the most both absolutely and proportionately, followed by British Pakistanis and British Bangladeshis. White and Indian marriages account for 11% of all inter-ethnic marriages in Britain, while 26% of inter-ethnic marriages in Britain are between white and 'mixed-race' (including Anglo-Indian) people. As of 2005, it is estimated that at least a fifth of Indian males in Britain have white partners. As of 2006, there are 246,400 British citizens of mixed white and South Asian (mostly Indian) descent in Britain. This accounts for 30% of the 'British Mixed-Race' population.
There is no evident official discrimination against Anglo-Indians in terms of current government employment, but it is widely perceived that their disinclination to master local languages does not help their employment chances in modern India.
Anglo-Indians distinguished themselves in the military. Air Vice-Marshal Maurice Barker was India's first Anglo-Indian Air Marshal. At least seven other Anglo-Indians subsequently reached that post, a notable achievement for a small community. A number of others have been decorated for military achievements. Air Marshal Malcolm Shirley Dundas Wollen is often considered the man who won India's 1971 war fighting alongside Bangladesh. Anglo-Indians made similarly significant contributions to the Indian Navy and Army.
Another field in which Anglo-Indians won distinction was education. The most respected matriculation qualification in India, the ICSE, was started and built by some of the community's best known educationists including Frank Anthony, who served as its president, and A.E.T. Barrow who served as its secretary for the better part of half a century. Most Anglo-Indians, even those without much formal education, find that gaining employment in schools is fairly easy because of their fluency in English.
In sporting circles Anglo-Indians have made a significant contribution, particularly at Olympic level where Norman Pritchard became India's first ever Olympic medallist, winning two silver medals at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, France. In cricket Roger Binny was the leading wicket-taker during the Indian cricket team's 1983 World Cup triumph. Wilson Jones was India's first ever World Professional Billiards Champion.
Several charities have been set up abroad to help the less fortunate in the community in India. Foremost among these is CTR (Calcutta Tiljallah Relief - based in the USA), which has instituted a senior pension scheme, and provides monthly pensions to over 300 seniors. CTR also provides education to over 200 needy children.
Today, there are estimated to be at least 80,000 Anglo-Indians living in India, most of whom are based in the cities of Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. Anglo-Indians also live in Kochi, Goa, Pune, Secunderabad, Visakhapatnam, Lucknow, Agra, and in some towns of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Also a significant number of this population resides in Orissa's Khorda town, which is a busy railway junction.
Most of the Anglo-Indians overseas are concentrated in Britain, Australia, Canada, USA, and New Zealand. Of the estimated million or so (including descendants), who have emigrated from India, some are settled in Asia including Pakistan and Myanmar, and also in European countries like Switzerland, Germany, and France. According to the Anglo-Indians who have settled in Australia, integration for the most part has not been difficult. The community in Myanmar frequently intermarried with the local Anglo-Burmese community but both communities suffered from adverse discrimination since Burma's military took over the government in the 1962, with most having now left the country to settle overseas.
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Phillip Thomas MB ChB LLB(hons) FRCS (born June 7, 1961) is an obesity surgeon and medical negligence lawyer, and now also a ghostwriter. As of October 12, 2007, Mr. Thomas is no longer on the General Medical Council Register and may not practise as a doctor in the UK.
He qualified in Medicine from the University of Manchester, being awarded the Bradley Memorial Surgical Scholarship. Having been the British Digestive Foundation Research Fellow in diseases of the pancreas, he was appointed Inaugural Tutor in Surgical Gastroenterology in the University of Manchester, UK.
Following his work on restorative proctocolectomy, he was awarded the Kock Prize for Best Scientific Paper at the World Congress on Pelvic Pouch Procedures, and appointed Visiting Professor of Surgery, at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 1988, he was awarded the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland merit award for his contribution to surgical education. He has written more than 50 scientific papers, oral and poster presentations. He was the author of the major surgical textbook Pelvic Pouch Procedures, published by Butterworth-Heinemann in 1991.
He is also a graduate in Law from the University of Leeds, UK, and has published peer reviewed articles on the litigation time bomb associated with steroid induced sports injuries. In 1993, he was advisor to the Inns of Court School of Law on medical negligence litigation.
His primary interest has been in obesity surgery, and the development of the gastric balloon for obesity. Following a period as Medical Director of the obesity surgery division of The Hospital Group, he set up the National Obesity Surgery Centre. His work on the development of the gastric balloon brought him both national and international recognition. He has appeared in numerous television and radio programmes and also in many newspaper and magazine articles.
In 2006, he appeared on the Sharon Osbourne Show talking about the very first use of a gastric balloon in an adolescent. Dr Thomas is also well known as “Dr Phill”, advocating the use of Baclofen for the management of chronic alcoholism. His web site www.baclofen4alcoholism.com is recognised as one of the leading forums for sufferers of alcoholism to find out information about Baclofen.
Dr Thomas is now a ghostwriter, specialising in medical and legal publications and “celebrity autobiographies”. He currently lives in the UK.
The Sharon Osbourne Show – YouTube copy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s5SSCkFz5M
Granada Reports – YouTube copy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX6ku1H3CVQ
Obesity Hospital to open – BBC News on-line, 2004 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/3401641.stm
First obesity surgery hospital set to open – NHS on-line January 2004 http://www.nelm.nhs.uk/en/NeLM-Area/News/478523/478671/478675/
I’ll treat tubby teens with balloon, says doc – Manchester Evening News, Monday 19 July 2004
The Balloon that helps you lose weight – Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 15 November 2005
Childhood obesity set to soar worldwide – MSNBC News / Associated Press, March 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11694799/
Thomas P.E., Alexander I.A. Steroid-induced sports injury: a litigation time-bomb. Health Care Risk Management 1, 12, 1995.
Taylor T.V., Lythgoe J.P., McFarland J.B., Gilmore I., Thomas P.E., Ferguson G.H. Anterior lesser curve seromyotomy and posterior truncal vagotomy versus truncal vagotomy and pyloroplasty in the treatment of chronic duodenal ulcer. Br. J. Surg. 77, 1007, 1990.
Thomas P.E., Kim H.K., Case R.M., Taylor T.V. Routes of enzyme secretion in the acutely inflammed rat pancreas. Gut 31, 1089, 1990.
Thomas P.E., Kim H.K., Case R.M., Taylor T.V. Routes of enzyme secretion in the isolated perfused rat pancreas. Digestion 46, 181, 1990.
Thomas P.E., Kim H.K., Case R.M., Taylor T.V. Routes of enzyme secretion in the acutely inflammed rat pancreas. Digestion 46, 181, 1990.
Sene A., Thomas P.E., Gautam V., Andrews N.J., McMahon R.F.T., Taylor T.V. Juvenile polyp in an ileaoanal pouch following restorative proctocolectomy for juvenile polyposis coli. Br. J. Surg. 76, 801, 1989.
Thomas P.E., Hosker G.L., Taylor T.V. There is evidence of abnormal neural innervation to the external anal sphincter after restorative proctocolectomy. In: Essere Edizioni, Advances in Therapeutic Strategy of Inflammatory and Neoplastic Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, Italy, 1989, p 5.
Thomas P.E., Hosker G.L., Taylor T.V. Anomanometric and anal canal motility abnormalities after restorative proctocolectomy. Ibid, p 37.
Thomas P.E., Taylor T.V. There are few long-term haematological sequelae of restorative proctocolectomy. Ibid, p 21.
Thomas P.E., Taylor T.V. Mineral status and serum biochemistry remain normal on long-term follow-up after restorative proctocolectomy. Ibid, p 11.
Taylor T.V., Thomas P.E., Lythgoe J.P., McFarland J.B. Advantages of anterior lesser curve seromyotomy with posterior truncal vagotomy for chronic duodenal ulcer. Gut 29, 1444, 1988.
Taylor T.V., Thomas P.E., Lythgoe J.P., McFarland J.B. Advantages of anterior lesser curve seromyotomy with posterior truncal vagotomy for chronic duodenal ulcer. Am. J. Gastroenterol. 83, 1040, 1988.
Thomas P.E., Taylor T.V. Long-term haematological sequelae of restorative proctocolectomy. In: New Trends in Pelvic Pouch Procedures, Bologna, 1991.
Thomas P.E., Taylor T.V. Mineral status and serum biochemistry after restorative proctocolectomy. Ibid.
Thomas P.E., Hosker G.L., Taylor T.V. Anomanometric studies and anal canal motility after restorative proctocolectomy. Ibid.
Thomas P.E., Hosker G.L., Taylor T.V. Neural innervation to the external anal sphincter after restorative proctocolectomy. Ibid. PRESENTATIONS
Lectures
Thomas P.E. Medico-legal implications of obstetric-induced pelvic floor trauma. Alexander Harris Medical Negligence Group, October 1994.
Thomas P.E. Anatomy and physiology of the colon, rectum and anus; with particular emphasis on the pathophysiological assessment of the anorectum. North West of England Primary Fellowship Course, November 1991.
Thomas P.E. New Rectums for old. The renaissance of surgery for inflammatory bowel disease. South Cheshire Surgical Club, September 1991.
Thomas P.E. Anatomy and physiology of the colon, rectum and anus; with particular emphasis on the pathophysiological assessment of the anorectum. North West of England Primary Fellowship Course, November 1990.
Thomas P.E. The surgical management of faecal incontinence. North West Incontinence Group, December 1989.
Oral Presentations at Scientific Meetings
Thomas P.E., Kim H.K., Case R.M., Taylor T.V. Routes of enzyme secretion in the acutely inflammed rat pancreas. European Pancreatic Society, Basel, Switzerland, September 1990.
Thomas P.E., Hosker G.L., Taylor T.V. There is evidence of abnormal neural innervation to the external anal sphincter after restorative proctocolectomy. International Symposium on Progress with Pelvic Pouch Procedures, Bologna, Italy, September 1989. Awarded Medal for Best Scientific Paper.
Thomas P.E., Hosker G.L., Taylor T.V. Anomanometric and anal canal motility abnormalities after restorative proctocolectomy. International Symposium on Progress with Pelvic Pouch Procedures, Bologna, Italy, September 1989.
Thomas P.E., Taylor T.V. There are few long-term haematological sequelae of restorative proctocolectomy. International Symposium on Progress with Pelvic Pouch Procedures, Bologna, Italy, September 1989.
Thomas P.E., Taylor T.V. Mineral status and serum biochemistry remain normal on long-term follow-up after restorative proctocolectomy. International Symposium on Progress with Pelvic Pouch Procedures, Bologna, Italy, September 1989.
Thomas P.E. Cystic Fibrosis – it’s epidemiology, aspects of screening and the role of the community. Society for Social Medicine, Manchester, October 1984.
Poster Presentations at Scientific Meetings
Thomas P.E., Kim H.K., Case R.M., Taylor T.V. Routes of enzyme secretion in the acutely inflamed rat pancreas. Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Manchester, U.K., November 1990.
Thomas P.E., Kim H.K., Case R.M., Taylor T.V. Routes of enzyme secretion in the isolated perfused rat pancreas. European Pancreatic Society, Basel, Switzerland, September 1990.
Taylor T.V., Thomas P.E., Lythgoe J.P., McFarland J.B. Advantages of anterior lesser curve seromyotomy with posterior truncal vagotomy for chronic duodenal ulcer. American College of Gastroenterology, Chicago, U.S.A., October 1988.
Taylor T.V., Thomas P.E., Lythgoe J.P., McFarland J.B. Advantages of anterior lesser curve seromyotomy with posterior truncal vagotomy for chronic duodenal ulcer. British Society of Gastroenterology, Sheffield, U.K., September 1988.
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Coordinates | 51°57′″N15°43′″N |
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name | Sir Noel Thomas |
birth date | 1915 |
death date | 1983 |
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allegiance | United Kingdom |
branch | |
rank | General |
commands | 42nd (Lancashire and Cheshire) Division |
battles | World War II |
awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the BathDistinguished Service OrderMilitary Cross |
laterwork | }} |
He served in World War II latterly as Commander Royal Engineers for the Guards Armoured Division in North West Europe.
He was appointed General Officer Commanding 42nd (Lancashire and Cheshire) Division in 1963 and then became Director of Combat Development (Army) at the Ministry of Defence in 1965. He was appointed Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Operational Requirements) in 1968 and Master-General of the Ordnance in 1971; in this capacity he was also a member of the Procurement Executive Organisation formed by Prime Minister Edward Heath that year. He retired in 1974.
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