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Anglo-Indian people are a distinct minority community of mixed-race British and Indian ancestry. During the colonial period, their ancestry was defined as British paternal and Indian maternal heritage; post-independence, "Anglo-Indian" has also encompassed other European and Indian ancestries.
The British diaspora in India, though comprising only 37,700 British nationals in 2006, [1] has had a significant impact due to the effects of British colonialism. The mixing between Britons and native Indians also gave rise to the Anglo-Indian community .
The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British paramountcy, called the princely states.
[10] Revolutionary violence had already been a concern in British India; consequently in 1915, to strengthen its powers during what it saw was a time of increased vulnerability, the Government of India passed the Defence of India Act, which allowed it to intern politically dangerous dissidents without due process and added to the power it ...
At least in theory people in Britain of British and Indian ethnic origin only qualify for this category if the mixture of their ancestry occurred in India. See Category:British people in colonial India for Britons who resided in colonial India, also known, in Britain, as 'Anglo-Indians' (this includes those born in the British Raj of British ...
Pages in category "British people in colonial India" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,574 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The British era is significant because during this period a very large number of famines struck India. [2] [3] There is a vast literature on the famines in colonial British India. [4] The mortality in these famines was excessively high and in some may have been increased by British policies. [5]
Lomarsh Roopnarine, a Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Jackson State University in his review of the book wrote at The Historian (journal), "The author navigates the social lives of about 150,000 servicemen and women without replicating the previously explored themes of British Raj."