Suchergebnisse

The Anglo-Indians are the only community which is constitutionally defined in India without any regional antecedent. They must be born of a habitually resident European in the paternal line, no matter from which part of India the maternal contribution is. The sudden withdrawal of the British from India left this community in a whirlpool of stresses & strains necessitating drastic emotional adjustment. Cultural values for the community had always been borrowed from the West, & in the wake of swara.j, such values started falling out of general Indian favor. Consequently, in certain aspects of their SE life the Anglo-Indians were directly faced with an ultimatum to either follow the Indian rubric or migrate. To those considering this situation as a relegation to a Ls, migration is the alternative. As a result, the remaining community is surviving by resigning itself to a number of unsolved problems. In the spheres of housing & employment, they have chosen the peripheral areas. In the areas of the fam & marriage, a strong tendency toward imbalance is noted re both the age of the partners & age at marriage. Re food, language & dress the Anglo-Indians have already attempted a compromise. Earlier res on this group has found that they have been disowned by both the British & Hindus (Indians). This res, though based on a survey from Bombay alone, points out that in the wake of secularism & industr' ization in India the selective disowning of this community, just because `Hindus ascribe status by birth rather than through achievement,' is no longer tenable. The Anglo-Indians have remained as one of the marginal groups because they built a shell around themselves. The leadership pattern under the constitutional provision regards the community more in a physical sense than in an emotional one. Modified AA.