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Anglo-Indian

Anglo-Indian

7.3
A person whose family is both British and Indian, or a British person who lived in India during British rule
  • noun
  • /ˈæŋɡloʊ ˈɪndiən/
translation icon : angloindio
  • She followed the bandy-legged waddle of old Anglo-Indian ladies through rooms crowded with quaint colonial knick-knacks.
  • Anglo-Indian community

Examples

  • They're of course very prominent Anglo Indian populations, most notably Rishi Sunak, former UK Prime Minister.

  • The Anglo-Indian community has preserved unique cultural traditions from both British and Indian heritage.

  • 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.

  • During British rule, an Anglo-Indian family often navigated the complexities of belonging to two different cultures.

Surface Forms

Anglo-Indian singular
Anglo-Indians plural

Morphology

Anglo-Indian = Anglo + Indian (transparent) = Anglo + Indian

The noun sense refers to a person characterized by the combination 'Anglo' + 'Indian', which is directly inferable from its parts.

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'.