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  • 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
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  • 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
  • He devoted over 14 pages to the matter, treating also several other words galimatias, salmagundi, salmi, etc. — even Hamlet's 'miching malicho' and the Anglo-Indian mulligatawny which he perceived to be connected by the root 'ma', meaning in his opinion a small bird or chicken and serving as an important piece of evidence for the previous existence of a language, possibly older than Sanskrit, which had already been lost in medieval times but which was the source of numerous words used in the kitchen. Languagehat.com: MA, A SMALL BIRD.
  • I happened to get acquainted with the widow of some departed high Anglo-Indian official.
  • But all that the widow of the high Anglo-Indian official said to me was: "Come along, Ruby, have a cup of tea.
  • The Turks forced the Anglo-Indian prisoners of war to march across the desert without adequate food, water, shelter, or medical attention and large numbers of POW's died under terrible conditions before reaching prison camps in Anatolia. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
  • In the morning the Anglo-Indian widow sent for me to breakfast.
  • He was one of the best-known Anglo-Indians, who had helped put down the Santal tribe rebellion in Bengal and became the premier of Tasmania from 1894 to 1899.
  • I can speak passable Urdu, but my Anglo-Indian is certainly sufficient to confuse an American commander. NIMITZ CLASS
  • My great interest in Anglo-Indian contact in that period was the profound alienness of each group in the eyes of the other.
  • I have heard it traced to the Hindoostanee word bhai, a brother, but the usual attitude of the Anglo-Indian's mind towards his domestics does not give sufficient support to this. Behind the Bungalow
  • In the far northwest, comprising western Ohio and the Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan Territories, the Americans battled an Anglo-Indian alliance, with Tecumseh serving as the nominal leader for the northwestern Indians. Between War and Peace
  • It's fresh and zingy, but this is a dish that curtsies to south-east Asian rather than Anglo-Indian cuisine, and on a practical note I'm not sure how long it would be happy to sit around on the buffet table. How to cook perfect coronation chicken
  • ` little, small 'and English peg (Anglo-Indian slang since at least 1864 for a drink, especially of brandy and soda water); and shroffage ` commission charged for shroffing' combines shroff (an adaptation of Hindi saraf ` banker, money-lender, 'a word borrowed from Arabic) and the English suffix - age. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
  • The representational strategies this body of fiction deploys in depicting Eurasians can be seen as a refusal to allow the history of the Anglo-Indian community into the official colonial narrative.
  • Yet it isn't really Indian; it's Anglo-Indian, concocted from a classic Indian preparation to suit British tastes. Hope & Glory
  • The UK's favourite food has changed from fish and chips to chicken tikka masala - an Anglo-Indian hybrid.

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