{"id":19491,"date":"2012-01-02T23:55:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19491"},"modified":"2012-01-02T23:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:55:01","slug":"anglo-indian-legacy-slowly-disappears-in-remote-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19491","title":{"rendered":"Anglo-Indian legacy slowly disappears in remote forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bt.com.bn\/art-culture\/2011\/12\/20\/anglo-indian-legacy-slowly-disappears-remote-forest\" target=\"_blank\">Anglo-Indian legacy slowly disappears in remote forest<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bt.com.bn\" target=\"_blank\">The Brunei Times<\/a><br \/>\n2011-12-20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ammu Kannampilly<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McCluskieganj\" target=\"_blank\">Mccluskieganj, India<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As India inched towards independence, hundreds of mixed-race Anglo-Indians feared for their future and retreated to a self-styled homeland in a thickly forested part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ernest McCluskie, an Indian of Scottish descent established McCluskieganj in what is now the eastern state of Jharkhand, hoping to attract Anglo-Indians anxious about the impending demise of the British empire.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 80 years on, the few colonial bungalows still standing are in disrepair, the local economy survives on the back of a single school, and McCluskieganj&#8217;s ageing residents say the &#8220;chhotta England&#8221; (little England) they grew up in has vanished forever.<\/p>\n<p>Anglo-Indians prospered under British rule with access to good jobs in the railways, armed forces or as customs officers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bt.com.bn\/art-culture\/2011\/12\/20\/anglo-indian-legacy-slowly-disappears-remote-forest\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo-Indian legacy slowly disappears in remote forest The Brunei Times 2011-12-20 Ammu Kannampilly Mccluskieganj, India As India inched towards independence, hundreds of mixed-race Anglo-Indians feared for their future and retreated to a self-styled homeland in a thickly forested part of the country. Ernest McCluskie, an Indian of Scottish descent established McCluskieganj in what is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,459,125,8,10],"tags":[9024,9026,1351,9027,9025],"class_list":["post-19491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-ammu-kannampilly","tag-brunei-times","tag-india","tag-mccluskieganj","tag-the-brunei-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}