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Anglo Indian vs English etc: What's the difference?
« on: Thursday 13 March 25 13:38 GMT (UK) »
Found a death record for my 3x great grandfather in Karachi in the 1930s. I noticed on the record it lists his nationality as Anglo Indian while the 3 other deaths recorded on the same page for other people are English, English and Scottish. What exactly would this have meant at the time?

I don't really know much about his father apart from a name and that he was born and died also in Karachi. I know his mother (she got married at 13 or 14 which is so crazy) was mixed race so is that why they recorded him as Anglo-Indian? Honestly sometimes these terms confuse me.


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Re: Anglo Indian vs English etc: What's the difference?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 13 March 25 13:45 GMT (UK) »
Wikipedia says mixed-race, originally British paternal and Indian maternal heritage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Indian_people?wprov=sfti1#
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