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...almost impossible to imagine that when she was born inside these whitewashed walls, McCluskieganj was a paradise for mixed-race children of the British empire. What Kitty remembers most about the early days is the hope. The settlers' idea was to create nothing less than a mini-state for Anglo-Indians. Their leader: Ernest McCluskie, a Scot-Indian who had felt personally the sting of discrimination from both the British and from Indians who resented that their mixed-race countrymen were eligible for better jobs. As a wealthy trader, McCluskie was in a position to do something about...
...Practically every house was Anglo-Indian," says Kathleen Hourigan, a matronly 55-year-old Irish-Indian. "There was a real togetherness. And there were lovely shows, picnics and dances. It was quite something." The farmers raised pigs and cattle and made mango jelly. There was a school, two hospitals, a clubhouse and endless rose gardens. Nothing it seemed, not even World War II, could touch McCluskieganj. And then, in 1947, came Indian independence. The community "just couldn't imagine a life without England," says McCluskieganj historian Captain David Cameron, 72. Some of the early pioneers had died and, without...
...Jesus that is being worshipped is presented as a white, Anglo-Saxon male,” he said, adding “Republican” a few moments later...
...known this all along. With Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's continued promises to put this issue to a vote, skeptics wonder whether a settlement, then rejection of a settlement, has been London's short-term plan all along. Even if it falls short of removing a thorn in Anglo-Spanish relations, Britain would fulfill its duties, first to Spain and the E.U. ("We tried"), and secondly to Gibraltar ("We kept our promise...
...version of the masterpiece, Silva plans to make the protagonist a Chicano—a Mexican-American. “He becomes a man of two worlds,” he says. “This way, you don’t have the Anglo-American who is being assailed by the evil Mexicans...