[lit-ideas] Re: "Vanitas Vanitatum"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:30:08 EDT
In a message dated 9/7/2004 10:52:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
cmharris@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
The Oxford Companion to English Literature claims: " Thackeray, Willaim
Makepeace, 1811-63, of a Yorkshire yeoman family, was born in Calcutta,
where his father held office as a collector"...
Anglo Indian in this case I believe is used to mean one of the British
families who settled in India.
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For the record, here below the quotes from the OED for 'Anglo-Indian'.
Ceri writes:
>Thackeray was born in Calcutta
>where his father held office as a collector.
Interestingly, Calcutta features in one of the OED cites -- dated 1907:
"Calcutta..merits the epithet of Anglo-Indian better than anything else in
India."
I don't know much of Thackeray's mother, but I guess she should have lived
in India longer than Thackeray's father for Thackeray to _count_ as an
Anglo-Indian. Cf. a 1934 cite: 'the term â??Anglo-Indianâ?? used to be applied
to people
of British birth who had lived long in India.'
And Cf. the quote:
1929 Cowley Evangelist June 134
"A congregation of Indian, Anglo-Indian and European people, all happily
joining together."
--- Back in Thackeray's time, that congregation could have included
Thackeray's father (an European), and two Anglo-Indians (Thackeray and
Thackeray's
mother?) and the Indian maid or servant they may have had in the household.
Cheers,
JL
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1826 J. MALCOLM Polit. Hist. India 1784-1823 II. xi. 248
The mixed population of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, made up of European
Half Castes, or Anglo-Indians.
1842 Ainsworth's Mag. II. 63
He had been at Massorie, that sanatorium of Anglo-Indians.
1845 E. ACTON Mod. Cookery (ed. 2) xiv. 288
We think..the proportion of onion and garlic by one half too much for any
but well seasoned Anglo-Indian palates.
1847 Howitt's Jrnl. 30 Jan. 67/2
The transmission of the Anglo-Indian mails.
1861 SWINHOE N. China Camp. 153
The Chinese Tsaou, called Bier by the Anglo-Indians, is a somewhat
cylindrically shaped fruit.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 2/1
Calcutta..merits the epithet of Anglo-Indian better than anything else in
India.
1929 Cowley Evangelist June 134
A congregation of Indian, Anglo-Indian and European people, all happily
joining together.
1929 Church Times 14 June 726/4
The Archdeacon of Madras said that the Anglo-Indian, and particularly the
lower class of Anglo-Indian, was the crux of the whole question.
1934 S.P.E. Tract XLI. 21
The term â??Anglo-Indianâ?? used to be applied to people of British birth who
had lived long in India. In 1911 the Government of India decided to substitute
â??Anglo-Indianâ?? for â??Eurasianâ?? as the official term for those of mixed
descent.
1941 O'MALLEY Mod. India & West xv. 552
Anglo-Indian literature is really a subject in itself.
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