Anglo-Indian
- noun
- /ˈæŋɡloʊ ˈɪndiən/
- She followed the bandy-legged waddle of old Anglo-Indian ladies through rooms crowded with quaint colonial knick-knacks.
- Anglo-Indian community
Examples
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They're of course very prominent Anglo Indian populations, most notably Rishi Sunak, former UK Prime Minister.
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The Anglo-Indian community has preserved unique cultural traditions from both British and Indian heritage.
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This elderly Anglo-Indian couple selling their bungalow already assumes we are husband and wife.
Fiction book (2002) -
Johnson, Alan. Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement. Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, 2011. Print.
Academic text (2016) -
Adela's anxiety to see the real India stems from her ambivalence toward her possible future should she decide to marry a colonial officer and be labeled an Anglo-Indian wife, a stereotype she tries to avoid.
Academic text (2016) -
The arcade is full of British folk—Australians and Anglo-Indians, passing to and fro to the dining room, to the stairs, to the front entrance.
Blog text (22) -
His views and relative independence from the Anglo-Indian community in Chandrapore are such that he often disagrees with his countrymen's or countrywomen's behaviors among themselves and toward the colonized.
Academic text (2016) -
Many Anglo-Indians celebrated Christmas with traditional British dishes while incorporating local Indian flavors.
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During British rule, an Anglo-Indian family often navigated the complexities of belonging to two different cultures.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Anglo-Indian combines Anglo- meaning 'English' and Indian meaning 'from India', and it names a person who is English in background or of mixed English and Indian family, especially during the years of British rule; you can also see Anglo- in Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-American, where it also means 'English'.