Anglo-Indian Literature And Related Literary Works

I. Related Literary Works

These are some of the novels, memoirs, poetry collections, and other literary works written by Anglo-Indian authors or authors closely associated with Anglo-Indian heritage and experiences.

Ruskin Bond (1934–Present)

Although often identified more broadly as an Indian author of British descent, Bond's work reflects many themes associated with Anglo-Indian and Eurasian life in India.

  • The Room on the Roof (1956)
  • Vagrants in the Valley (1957)
  • A Flight of Pigeons (1978)
  • Delhi Is Not Far (1960)
  • The Blue Umbrella (1980)
  • Rain in the Mountains (essays)
  • Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra (1991)

Allan Sealy

  • The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle (1988)
  • Hero (1991)
  • The Everest Hotel (1998)
  • Red: An Allegory of the Republic of India (2010)
  • The Brainfever Bird (2003)

Stephen Alter

  • Neglected Lives (1978)
  • Silkworms (1987)
  • All the Way to Heaven (2002)
  • Amritsar to Lahore (2000)
  • Becoming a Mountain (2014)

Angela Man

  • An Anglo-Indian Story

Melville de Mellow

  • Storm Over Kashmir

John Masters

Born in India and often associated with Anglo-Indian and colonial literary traditions.

  • Bhowani Junction (1954)
  • Nightrunners of Bengal (1951)
  • Coromandel! (1955)
  • The Deceivers (1952)

Gloria Jean Moore

  • The Anglo-Indians

Lionel Lumb

  • Roll On, Railway

II. Historical, Sociological, and Academic Books on Anglo-Indians

These works focus specifically on the history, sociology, culture, and identity of the Anglo-Indian community.

Lionel Caplan

  • Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World (2001)
  • Class and Culture in Urban India

Christopher J. Hawes

  • Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773–1833 (1996)
  • Anglo-Indian Attitudes: The Mind of the Indian Railway Community (2013)

Alison Blunt

  • Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home (2005)

Frank Anthony

  • Britain's Betrayal in India: The Story of the Anglo-Indian Community (1969)

Adrian Gilbert

  • The Anglo-Indians

Reginald Maher

  • These Are the Anglo-Indians

Cedric Dover

  • One of the earliest scholars of Eurasian identity.
  • Cimmerii? or Eurasians and Their Future (1929)
  • Half-Caste (1937)

Herbert Alick Stark

  • Hostages to India (1936)

Margaret Deefholts

  • The Way We Were: Anglo-Indian Chronicles (2008)
  • Voices from the Verandah

Megan Mills

  • The Anglo-Indians: A Contemporary Portrait

S. Sen (Editor)

  • The Anglo-Indians: A Portrait of a Community (2014)

III. Books on Anglo-Indian Cuisine

Bridget White-Kumar

  • The Anglo-Indian Cookery Book
  • Anglo-Indian Food and Customs

Jennifer Brennan

  • Curries and Bugles: A Memoir and Cookbook of the British Raj

Patricia Brown

  • Anglo-Indian Food

Veena Kumar

  • Anglo-Indian Cuisine