ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with establishing the relevance of oral histories and photographs as valuable data in historical sociolinguistics. It the offers biographical details of two English private citizens who were born and raised in India and who migrated to the UK after Indian Independence. An analysis of their individual remembrances and the forms via which they emerge reveals how complex their identities are. They represent a hybridity that is typically associated with South Asian colonized world, and in this sense prod us to rethink how some postcolonial concepts (‘hybridity’ being one of them) get over attached to particular groups of people, while leaving out others.
