The question was raised at the curtain-raiser itself and answered with the official All-India Anglo-Indian Association view propagated by Frank Anthony pre-Independence. That view holds that an Anglo-Indian is a person whose mother tongue is English, who is Christian, and who adopts (or, is it ‘adapts’? The Constitution does not also mention that an Anglo-Indian’s mother tongue has to be English. Many of these children passed into the mainstream, but there were those who claimed to be Anglo-Indians — and this was long an issue between the All India Anglo-Indian Association and its member associations, in particular the Kerala Anglo-Indian associations. He not only had a Misra who had an Anglo-Indian maternal line as an Anglo-Indian study, but be constantly referred to Anglo-Indians as “they”!

Source: The Hindu August 14, 2017 06:15 UTC