There are many who want to preserve the Anglo-Indian identity in India.

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"Previously, the community was too Anglicised - clinging to English traditions and customs, " explains Philomena Eaton, convenor of the Calcutta Anglo-Indian Service Society.

BBC: Anglo-Indians: Is their culture dying out?

The looser definition of Anglo-Indian (any mixed British-Indian parentage) encompasses the likes of cricketer Nasser Hussain, footballer Michael Chopra and actor Ben Kingsley.

BBC: Anglo-Indians: Is their culture dying out?

Charles Dias, the parliament's Anglo-Indian representative, has campaigned for greater government support, including reserved university places, new cultural centres and a fresh caste census.

BBC: Anglo-Indians: Is their culture dying out?

Successes in privatisation, such as the recent sale of Sidex, a failing steel plant in the grimy Danube delta town of Galati, to an Anglo-Indian company, have been offset by failures.

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On a recent trip to India, I spent a few days in Chennai (formerly Madras, the city where Macaulay landed), where the ubiquity of English-language bookstores testifies to a kind of symbiotic relationship with Anglo-American enthusiasm for Indian literature.

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Born to Indian- Anglo parents in Japan where his father settled after World War II, he was educated in London and has been managing his family's various businesses for much of his career.

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More major companies will join the ranks of Corus, an Anglo-Dutch steel company purchased by an Indian firm, Tata Steel.

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