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unusual facts about Anglo Indian



Culture of Chennai

A regional hub since British times, other prominent communities are the Anglo Indian, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati and Marwari communities and people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.


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Al Rasheed Street

The British were defeated by the Ottomans on the 29th of April 1916 in Kut (south of Baghdad), where tens of thousands of Anglo-Indian troops died or were wounded, and thousands more were taken prisoner, including their commander Sir Charles Townshend.

Andrew Peterson

Andrew Thomas Turton Peterson (1813–1906), Anglo-Indian barrister, spiritualist and amateur architect

Anglo-Indian Wars

The Anglo-Indian Wars were the several wars fought in India between the various Indian states and empires and the British East India Company and British India.

Arun Bharali

Arun Petrichor Bharali (born 7 October 1967 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England), known mononymously as Petrichor, is an Anglo-Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.

Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

He married secondly at Colombo, Ceylon or Paris, 23 June 1954, Anglo-Indian fashion model Nina Sheila Dyer (1930–1965), an heiress to properties in Ceylon; they had no children and divorced on 4 July 1956, pursuant to the settlement of which she received a château in France.

Battle of Condore

An Anglo-Indian force under the command of Colonel Francis Forde attacked and defeated a similarly sized French force under the command of Conflans, capturing all their baggage and artillery.

Battle of Dujaila

The Ottoman Sixth Army, reinforced, pursued and laid siege to the town after attempts to storm the Anglo-Indian positions failed.

The Ottoman forces, led by Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz were besieging Kut, when the Anglo-Indian relief force, led by Lieutenant-General Fenton Aylmer, attempted to relieve the city.

Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad

The Ottoman Sixth Army, now reinforced, followed and laid siege to the Anglo-Indian force at Kut-al-Amarrah.

Bhowani Junction

It starred Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving with the British armed forces, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a (British) Indian Army officer.

Bud Houghton

Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who emigrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule.

Bugger

For instance, within the Anglo-Indian community in India the word bugger has been in use, in an affectionate manner, to address or refer to a close friend or fellow schoolmate.

Church of the Province of Myanmar

The great majority of the Anglo-Burmese and Anglo-Indian communities in the country were also Anglicans and the number of schools run by the Church of England to educate British and Eurasian children increased.

Edward Pritchard

Edward Pritchard Gee (1904-1968), Anglo-Indian tea-planter and naturalist

Frederick Chamier

He was the son of an Anglo-Indian official, John Ezechial Camier and his wife Georgiana, daughter of Vice-admiral Sir William Burnaby.

Gawilghur

It was successfully assaulted by an Anglo-Indian force commanded by Arthur Wellesley on the 15 December 1803 during the Second Anglo-Maratha War.

Gymkhana Ground

Gymkhana, a typical Anglo-Indian expression, which is derived from the Hindi-Urdu word Jamat-khana, is an Indian term which referred to a place of assembly

Indian general election, 1930

Special Interests: N. M. Joshi (Labour Interests), M. C. Rajah (Depressed Classes), Henry Gidney (Anglo-Indian), Dr. Francis Xavier DeSouza (Indian Christians), R. T. H. Mackenzie (Associated Chambers of Commerce)

Indian general election, 1934

Special Interests: M. C. Rajah (Depressed Classes), Henry Gidney (Anglo-Indian), Dr. F. X. DeSouza (Indian Christians), L. C. Buss (Associated Chamber of Commerce), N. M. Joshi (Labour Interests)

J. G. Coleman

James George Coleman (1824–1883) was an Anglo-Indian soldier, businessman and philanthropist who served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1879 to 1883.

Jana Gana Mana

King George V was scheduled to arrive in the city on 30 December and a section of the Anglo-Indian English press in Calcutta thought – and duly reported – that Tagore's anthem was a homage to the emperor.

John Breeden

During this time, he was involved in raising money to build a new church at Egmore called the Egmore Church, the present Wesley Church, Chennai; for this, he visited the homes of European and Eurasian families (or Anglo-Indian), British Raj government servants, and visitors to Madras-both Christian and non-Christians alike.

He was an educationalist and the founder of St George's Homes, an Orphanage-cum-School for abandoned and deprived children of Eurasians or Anglo-Indians in Kodaikanal, later renamed as The Laidlaw Memorial School, Ketti in the Nilgiris.

Juliet Prowse

Juliet Anne Prowse (September 25, 1936 – September 14, 1996) was an Anglo-Indian dancer, whose four-decade career included stage, television and film.

Kutcha butcha

Famous actresses such as Merle Oberon and Vivian Leigh hid their Anglo-Indian ancestry, as did ex-Beatle Pete Best.

Nancy Ann Cynthia Francis

She is a non-elected, nominated member who represents the Anglo-Indian community.

Oliphant Chuckerbutty

Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960) (A.K.A. Wilson Oliphant) was an English composer and an organist of Anglo-Indian descent who played in both cinemas and churches.

Orkkapurathu

Set in an Anglo-Indian background, the entire film was shot in and around Fort Kochi.

Phil Taylor

Philip Meadows Taylor (1808–1876), Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist

Philip Taylor

Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-1876), Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist

Pratap Singh of Nabha

Pratap Singh began his schooling in the Anglo Indian school, Woodstock, in Musoorie.

Prinsepia

The plant is named for James Prinsep, scholar, antiquarian, architect, secretary of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, India, and member of the well-known Prinsep family of India, an Anglo-Indian family prominent in Indian affairs for several generations.

Sidney Colvin

Sir Sidney Colvin (18 June 1845 – 11 May 1927) was an English curator and literary and art critic, part of the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family.

Stuart Clark

Clark is the son of Anglo-Indian parents, his father Bruce Clark who is from Madras (now Chennai) was a student at Christ Church Anglo Indian-High School Madras, and his mother Mary Clark (née Boosey) is from the Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka, India; her family is a famous sporting family.

Suffolk House, Penang

The original house was simply a humble timber-and-attap garden house, fashioned in a simple Anglo-Indian Garden House style formerly common in British India.

William Delafield Arnold

In 1853, William published a novel of Anglo-Indian life, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East, which explores the inherent "common ground" between spiritual traditions East and West, while also predicting the "mutiny" that would occur shortly after.