Anglo Indian

See also

• Native Woman
• Australia, for Anglo Indians in Australia
• East India Company Army - Wives and children

FIBIS Fact Files No 1

Researching Anglo-Indian Ancestry 2009 21pp.
Essential for any family historian with blended ethnicity. The booklet contains two expanded and updated articles previously published in the FIBIS Journal: "The children of John Company : the Anglo-Indians" by Geraldine Charles, and "A Luso-Indian voyage" by Cliff Pereira. These two authorities provide invaluable information: definitions of the various terms used for those of mixed race in the Indian sub-continent, a brief background history of these communities, reading lists, and, by using their own families as a basis, a demonstration of how to effectively research Anglo-Indian ancestors.
Available from the FIBIS Shop. Also available from the FIBIS representative in Australia, Sylvia Murphy (refer FIBIS Committee).

Recommended reading

Bear, Laura Lines of the Nation (New York: Columbia, 2007) [essential but uncomfortable reading for Anglo-Indians with railway roots].

External Links

• This India List post lists alternative names for mixed race people in use before Anglo-Indian became the accepted terminology.
• "The East Indian Community" Calcutta Review, Volume 11 January-June 1849. (Google Books)
• Anglo Indian Home Page includes:

• "Some Comments on stereotypes of the Anglo-Indians" by Megan Stuart Mills from the International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies 1996. Part 1 includes a list of books and Part 2 includes a section on the army in World War I, mentioning conscription, and, in section 9, railway people.
• A listing of Books on Anglo-Indian Culture and History January 1997 by Withbert Payne
• "EIR at Jamalpur - Anglo-Indian Railway Officers" by Blair Williams The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies (Volume 6, Number 2, 2001).
• "The Curious Exclusion Of Anglo-Indians From Mass Slaughter During The Partition Of India". Experiences in India During 1947 of some who went to New Zealand by Dorothy McMenamin. The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 9, Number 1, 2006

• Russell and Enid Fonceca’s Anglo-Indian family trees and their links includes

• "Experience of Living in a Railway Colony in Allahabad" by Esther Mary Lyons

• Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home by Alison Blunt 2005 Limited View Google Books .
• "Problematic spaces, problematic races: defining 'Europeans' in late colonial India" by Elizabeth Buettner in Women's History Review, Volume 9, Issue 2 (June 2000) pages 277 – 298.
• "Children of the Raj" (pdf) by Vyvyen Brendon (2006) has some references to Anglo Indian children
• "White Mischief" by William Dalrymple in The Guardian (9 Dec 2002). The author of White Mughals writes about the book and mixed marriages in India.
• India List thread about attitudes to mixed marriages.
• Alistair Mcgowan’s story from Who Do You Think You Are?