| Abstract: | A personal journey through the literature by a former journalist with Anglo-Chinese grandsons. He examines Eurasian origins starting from the time of Alexander the Great and notes the way in which the relatively benign view of the early French, Dutch and British colonialists gradually hardened-an attitude reflected in, and justified by, some fairly questionable intellectual theories. Much of his focus is on India and the position of Anglo-Indians who, interestingly, proved that doubts about their loyalty were not well founded. In employment terms they would never be at the top, though equally they were not at the bottom. But the game changed as independence spread through Asia and many Anglo-Indians and other Eurasians left to lead their lives elsewhere. |
