Here are extracts of the book relating to the origins of the Anglo-Indian Community
The introductory paragraphs will give an informed view about the origins of the Anglo-Indian community.
Here is a quote from that book:
Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India: if ever a community could have wished for its own corporate dissolution, and for complete integration with its paternal society, it would have been the educated Eurasians of early nineteenth century India.
Jitu’s words: Obviously as the Anglo-Indian Community originated by British men fathering children through Indian women ‘integration with its paternal society’ meant integrating with the English! There was never even a remote possibility of this coming about as the following extract from my Page Anglo-Indians Documentaries and Research Papers makes clear.
Company Directors in 1784 expressed concern over what they called the imperfections‘ of the children of European men by Indian women:… whether bodily or mental; that is whether consisting in their colour, their conformation, or their genius…‘ There was a perception of something inherently, irredeemably wrong with Eurasians who existed because of the moral laxity of their progenitors. This implied an innate moral laxity characteristic of a whole community. The mantra, that half-castes‘ exhibited the worst characteristics of both parent races and few of their virtues, was common in contemporary literature. Ronald Hyam said this attitude sprang from the Cornwallis and Wellesley reforms which increased the social gulf between Britons and Indians, and discouraged miscegenation. It was later fed by ‘scientific‘ racism.
Charles Darwin said: the degraded state of so many half-castes is in part due to reversion to a primitive and savage condition, induced by the act of crossing, as well as to the unfavourable moral conditions under which they generally exist.‘