Websites relevant to Anglo-Indians & the history of AI culture
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The personal website of Anglo-Indian Doreen Jonas, Sunshine & Rainbows offers Anglo-Indians to discuss a number of topics. The site also promotes Doreen's popular cookery books.
A 'must visit' website for those interested in all things Bangalore. The site contains a wealth of information and images relating to Bangalore and its people.
Alistair McGowan
For those interested in Alistair McGowan's story. Alistair appeared on the BBC program, Who Do You Think You Are?, discovering along the way, that he is of Anglo-Indian descent. The clip is from The Little Shop of Horrors. To read about his experiences on WDYTYA, please check out this link:
A website that is relevant to all those of mixed-race.
Richard Johnson is an Anglo-Indian. He was born in Gaya, India in 1946 went to Goethals Memorial School in Kurseong and then to St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. He emigrated to Australia in 1969. Dr Richard Johnson is now a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Deakin University, Melbourne. Richard's research and teaching interests include ways of internationalising the curriculum, through acknowledging the contribution of South East and South Asian knowledge bases. He is currently working on a research project entitled 'Exploring the Monsoon Wedding phenomenon of Indian students studying in Australia'. Richard was awarded a Rotary grant to work in Nepal and he has also taught in India. In 2007 he initiated a cross cultural project involving his teacher education undergraduate students working with students from Iran and Pakistan. In 2000 he was awarded The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in teaching.
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Bert Payne's Anglo-Indian website, covering news, history, and events which are revelant to the Anglo-Indian Community. Compiled by Lynette Rebeiro.
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Blair Williams's CTR website is devoted to his charity, CTR, which ministers to the needs of Anglo-Indians throughout India.
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Terry Fletcher's website, The Anglo-Indian Portal is devoted to all things Anglo-Indian, including articles, recipes, games, forums, and links to Anglo-Indian websites....and more.
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A very interesting and informative site compiled and maintained by John Feltham.
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Website of Anglo-Indian author Esther Mary Lyons.
Families In British India Society
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The website for research into your Indian ancestry. The site has an extraordinary range of material, from BDM's to biographies and bonds.
British Library India Office Family History Search
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Indexes to 300,000 India-related BDM's, baptisms & burials, dating from c.1600-1949. In addition to this, the site contains indexes to biographical notes from a number of sources.
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Hosted by the National Archives (UK), this site offers an extensive range of catalogues which may be searched either individually or globally - one of which, relates to material held in the OIOC at the British Library.
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An extensive range of digital resources of interest to anybody who has an interest in India.
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This archive contains many books and other items relating to India & her history. To view the books in their original format, you will need to download & run the DjVu plugin, available fromLizard Tech. Some of the files are quite large, and can take a long time to download (especially if you have a dialup connection), but the Archive also offers plain text versions of most of the books on the site. If you are researching Indian history or cultures, this site is a fantastic source of rare & out of print books relating to these areas of research.
