ABSTRACT
In 1897 J. R. Wallace travelled to London to petition the secretary of state for India requesting official redesignation of the mixed race group. Eurasian had become a racialised epithet, as indeed to a lesser extent Anglo-Indian would be once it had been successfully appropriated by the mixed race group. The belated sanctioning of Anglo-Indian Force to fight in the First World War in March 1916, and the success of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century campaigns for formal redesignation of the group as Anglo-Indians marked the high point of the politics outlined by Satoshi Mizutani of seeking collective elevation towards the status of superordinate colonial Britons. Anglo-Indian education's greater orientation towards British examinations did little to encourage the learning of Indian languages. Policing group membership, especially in regard to reservations, was not a uniquely racial or Anglo-Indian concern. Elizabeth Buettner argued that 'British parents appeared unconcerned about their children mingling with 'natives at school and focused their reservations on Anglo-Indians'.
