The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anglo-Indian \Anglo-Indian\ adj. 1. relating to British India or the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages.
Anglo-Indian \Anglo-Indian\ n.
a person of English citizenship born or living in India.
One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indies.
Wikipedia
The term Anglo-Indians can refer to at least two groups of people: those with mixed Indian and British ancestry, and people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent. The latter sense is now mainly historical, but confusions can arise. The Oxford Dictionary, for example, gives three possibilities: "Of mixed British and Indian parentage, of Indian descent but born or living in Britain, or (chiefly historical) of British descent or birth but living or having lived long in India". People fitting the middle definition are more usually known as British Asian or British Indian. This article focuses primarily on the modern definition, a distinct minority community of mixed ancestry, whose native language is English.
During the centuries that Britain was in India, the children born to British men and Indian women began to form a new community. (This process was replicated in many other meetings of European traders and colonisers across the subcontinent, including in Burma and Sri Lanka.) These Anglo-Indians formed a small but significant portion of the population during the British Raj, and were well represented in certain administrative roles. The Anglo-Indian population dwindled from roughly 800,000 at the time of independence in 1947 to fewer than 350,000 by 2010. Many have adapted to local communities and emigrated to the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the United States and New Zealand.
Anglo-Indian is a term used to refer to a community of people of mixed British and Indian ancestry. Historically, these people were called "Eurasian" and "Anglo-Indian" meant people of European descent born in India.
Anglo-Indian may also refer to language topics such as:
- Indian English
- Regional differences and dialects in Indian English
- Hinglish
- Indian English literature
- List of English words of Indian origin
- List of English words of Persian origin
Anglo-Indian may also refer to:
- Anglo-Indian Wars
- India–United Kingdom relations
- Anglo-Indian Canadian
- Anglo-Indian cuisine
Usage examples of "anglo-indian".
An endless masochistic denunciation of his own race, and a series of traditional caricatures of Anglo-Indian society, with its unbearable club life, its chota pegs, etc.
Jos’s friends were all from the three presidencies, and his new house was in the comfortable Anglo-Indian district of which Moira Place is the centre.