Anglo-Indian

NOUN
  1. a person of English citizenship born or living in India
ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to British India or the English in India
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How To Use Anglo-Indian In A Sentence

  • The British rulers of colonial India sent an Anglo-Indian army into Afghanistan in 1839 to establish it as a buffer state against the advances of imperial Russia in Central Asia. In Bob Woodward's 'Obama's Wars,' Neil Sheehan sees parallels to Vietnam
  • My brother-in-law's mum is Anglo-Indian and I've been privileged to watched her cook for the past 30 years. Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 best reader's recipe: Maria Kuehn
  • Anglo-Indian cooperation, however, only opened up well-established American bugaboos about the violence of an Indian war; even Thomas Jefferson linked the war to those emotions, arguing in June 1812, “[To take] possession of that country [Canada] secures our women & children for ever from the tomahawk & scalping knife, by removing those who excite them.” Between War and Peace
  • Peter Carty decided it was time to celebrate his mother's Anglo-Indian heritage. My Indian summer
  • People of exclusively British origin who were born in India are also sometimes called Anglo-Indian, but normally it denotes those of mixed race. My Indian summer
  • Anglo-Indian cooperation, however, only opened up well-established American bugaboos about the violence of an Indian war; even Thomas Jefferson linked the war to those emotions, arguing in June 1812, “[To take] possession of that country [Canada] secures our women & children for ever from the tomahawk & scalping knife, by removing those who excite them.” Between War and Peace
  • SHAMPOO 1. Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, eds. The English Is Coming!
  • The British rulers of colonial India sent an Anglo-Indian army there in 1839 to establish Afghanistan as a buffer state against the advances of imperial Russia in Central Asia. In Bob Woodward's 'Obama's Wars,' Neil Sheehan sees parallels to Vietnam
  • In an open _shamianah_, [4] eight or ten men divided their attention between a table at the back of the tent and the four ladies of the station, who perforce converted military events into those friendly gatherings which are the mainstay of Anglo-Indian life. Captain Desmond, V.C.
  • Indian interpreters do their stuff in faultless Anglo-Indian or Indo-Anglian ( "Actually her given name is Bhoomi, the earth, but her friends are calling her by this Boonyi cognomen which, sir, is the beloved tree of Kashmir"). Hobbes in the Himalayas
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