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==FIBIS Fact Files No.1== | ==FIBIS Fact Files No.1== | ||
''Researching Anglo-Indian Ancestry'' 2009 21pp. <br>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.<br> | ''Researching Anglo-Indian Ancestry'' 2009 21pp. <br>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.<br> | ||
Available from the [http://shop.fibis.org/books.html FIBIS Shop]. Also available from the FIBIS representative in Australia, Sylvia Murphy (refer FIBIS Committee | Available from the [http://shop.fibis.org/books.html FIBIS Shop]. Also available from the FIBIS representative in Australia, Sylvia Murphy (refer [http://www.fibis.org/committee.html FIBIS Committee]) | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
Revision as of 11:38, 21 October 2009
See also
- Native Woman
- Australia for Anglo Indians in Australia
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)
External Links
- The 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
- 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.