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...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...
...today, more than half a century after the end of the empire, something of McCluskieganj survives. In 1998, after an absence of 33 years, Hourigan returned from Australia to the family home with her ailing husband. "My late husband said: 'I was born here and I want to die here,'" she explains. "And somehow I'm just more comfortable here now." The weeds, say the settlers, are yet to choke the ideal of a gently segregationist shelter on which McCluskieganj was built. "This was my mother's house," says Kitty Teixeire. "How can I leave...
...Hourigan says residents of the co-ops have always tended to be more politically liberal...
...Hourigan says he has noticed a decline in political interest and activity in the Dudley co-op population in the past three years...
...There was a different crowd in the past--more politically active to the left and involved in everything. It was interesting and exciting--a funkier crowd," Hourigan says. "Now people are still on the left, but are not as involved in expressing that and maintaining that. It's more to the center through slightly to the left...