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Anglo-indians, jews celebrate 60th anniversary of freedom

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As India celebrates her independence day for the 61st time numbers of some communities in the country are dwindling. One such community are the Anglo-Indians. A term officially coined in 1935, it refers to a person born to a native Indian woman and of a male parent of European descent. From two hundred thousand in the nineteen-forties, they now number less than ten thousand, due to a constant trickle of youngsters out of India.

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