{"id":8291,"date":"2010-08-15T01:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T01:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8291"},"modified":"2014-10-23T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T22:55:02","slug":"fadeout-for-a-culture-that%e2%80%99s-neither-indian-nor-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8291","title":{"rendered":"Fadeout for a Culture That\u2019s Neither Indian Nor British"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/15\/world\/asia\/15india.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">Fadeout for a Culture That\u2019s Neither Indian Nor British<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times<br \/>\n2010-08-14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mian Ridge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CALCUTTA \u2014 Entering the crumbling mansion of the Lawrence D\u2019Souza Old Age Home here is a visit to a vanishing world.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast tea from a cup and saucer, Agatha Christie murder mysteries and Mills &amp; Boon romances, a weekly visit from the hairdresser, who sets a dowager\u2019s delicate hair in a 1940s-style wave. Sometimes, a tailor comes to make the old-style garments beloved by Anglo-Indian women of a certain age. Floral tea dresses, for example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Sundays, we listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jive_(dance)\" target=\"_blank\">jive<\/a>, although we don\u2019t dance much anymore,\u201d Sybil Martyr, a 96-year-old retired schoolteacher, said with a crisp English accent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re museum pieces,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The definition has varied over time, but under the Indian Constitution the term Anglo-Indian means an Indian citizen whose paternal line can be traced to Europe. Both of Mrs. Martyr\u2019s grandfathers were Scots&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Before 1947, when the British left India, Anglo-Indians \u2014 also known at the time as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half-castes<\/a>, blacky-whites and eight annas (there were 16 annas in a rupee, the official currency of India) \u2014 formed a distinct community of 300,000 to 500,000 people. Most were employed in the railroads and other government services, and many lived in railroad towns built for them by the British, where their distinctive culture, neither Indian nor British, flourished&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/15\/world\/asia\/15india.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fadeout for a Culture That\u2019s Neither Indian Nor British The New York Times 2010-08-14 Mian Ridge CALCUTTA \u2014 Entering the crumbling mansion of the Lawrence D\u2019Souza Old Age Home here is a visit to a vanishing world. Breakfast tea from a cup and saucer, Agatha Christie murder mysteries and Mills &amp; Boon romances, a weekly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,10],"tags":[8567,1351,3514,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-8291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-anglo-indians","tag-india","tag-mian-ridge","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291","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=8291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}