I am currently reading a book of essays entitled ''Ghosts of Memory- Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness'', edited by Janet Carsten. (First published 2007 by Blackwell Publishing.) It contains the following essay: Ruins and Ghosts: The Domestic Uncanny and the Materialization of Anglo-Indian Genealogies in Kharagpur, written by Laura Bear. I quote the introductory paragraphs -- ''This chapter explores the difficulties Anglo-Indian families in the railway colony at Kharagpur in West Bengal have in materializing continuities in their family histories and genealogies. Their inability to fashion their selves according to the principles of jati and desh (commonly translated as caste and village) constituted in the history of railway labor that underpin many of their fellow Indian railway workers' family histories has a curious effect. It leads to Anglo-Indians experiencing a dematerialization of their memories, histories, and family inheritances. In tandem with this, the physical space of the railway colony appears to be a place of ruins. Unable to assert continuities between the past and the present, Anglo-Indians are left with a sense of the invisibility of their own selves and of the chaotic degeneration of their community. However, they rematerialize connections between generations and to the place of Kharagpur through unexpected mediums and tales of domestic ghosts and experiences of haunting. These uncanny tales are linked to a particular vision of Catholicism held by Anglo-Indians.'' Unquote --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India