‘Land of our Mothers’: Home, Identity, and Nationality for Anglo‐Indians in British India, 1919–1947
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Abstract
This paper explores the symbolic and material intersections of home, identity and nationality for Anglo‐Indians (previously known as ‘Eurasians’) in the period between the Montague Chelmsford Reforms and Indian Independence. Community claims for a legitimate heritage were articulated through images of Britain as fatherland and India as motherland, and were closely tied to political attempts to gain a legitimate stake in national life. The paper examines public debates about home, identity and nationality with reference to the two main Anglo‐Indian leaders of the twentieth century, Henry Gidney and Frank Anthony. While a British imperial lineage was imagined through the figure of a British forefather, political debates about home, identity and nationality largely erased the figure of an Indian maternal ancestor and instead focused on Mother India and on the domestic roles of Anglo‐Indian women. The political recognition of both women and the home was an attempt not only to domesticate Anglo‐Indian women, but also to domesticate a new national identity that regarded India more than Britain as home. But the home life of Anglo‐Indians remained more British than Indian and political attempts to foster national loyalty to India as motherland were contested on a domestic scale. The mixed descent of Anglo‐Indians was thus both manifested and erased in public debates about the future and status of the community.
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