Thank you for sharing this touching presentation. I have been watching videos on McCluskiegunj since 1990s - so fascinating the idea of that township was. I have actually watched in one such video Kitty Memsahib selling guavas at the railway station, she playing old English songs on the family's gramophone and stories told by old residents of the town. Mr. Jha, the writer of the Hindi book on the town is NOT right in saying that the Anglo Indians of McCluskiegunj were shy of using their hands in agriculture. In one such video, an old Indian resident told the story of one Anglo Indian settler in 1940s trying to plant rice in his farm. Only, he did not know how to. He bought sacks of rice as seeds and naturally he failed.That is beside the point. What I surmised from watching all these videos was that both societies, Indian as well as the Anglo-Indians kept themselves away from each other and there was no effort from either side to assimilate. By the way, I had seen in one such video that an Anglo Indian Major General of Indian Army (I forgot his name) had bought one sprawling bungalow previously owned by another who had emigrated was not seen in the video you have presented. I wonder what happened to him and the idea with which he had settled in McCluskiegunj. It was my wish to visit the town at some stage in my life, but it seems the age is past the adventure. I thank you once again for sharing the moving saga of the remaining Anglo Indian community of this glorious town for their resilience and pride in the place of their choosing. Narendra On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar < bosham@gmail.com> wrote: > [image: Boxbe] <https://www.boxbe.com/overview> You chose to allow > Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar (bosham@gmail.com) even though this > message failed authentication > Click to disallow > <https://www.boxbe.com/anno?tc_serial=17728646653&tc_rand=278848447&utm_source=stf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANNO_AFA&utm_content=001&action=authfail&set=false&token=9ymOqjyjAiuUdBHUFq45ReO3ka7hkNSX7ba1%2Fi2yjwa%2F6EWBPAtliiUEWc%2FTiVDF&key=0bYx6lSO9om03kDxLSQMGjKwjVI5TUX5Iu6cM31JKGg%3D> > This message is eligible for Automatic Cleanup! (bosham@gmail.com) Add > cleanup rule > <https://www.boxbe.com/popup?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boxbe.com%2Fcleanup%3Ftoken%3DG5A6hxIgY7ddjjXDZToy%252BNX13Zzw2q5QQsNAIe%252FZUEcPFjfW%252BBZrwK2q0JbO4RU%252BTjI4jggTl21gbaq7yoERSt8pZrkatMldo9BvRu1%252Bx1JNG%252FXXBDzEOWTqyrCEeoO8Z%252FIvSgdtRpk%253D%26key%3D0bYx6lSO9on385PxHRV0mucExN2v%252F83jSyMO%252BEnd25k%253D&tc_serial=17728646886&tc_rand=2010081364&utm_source=stf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANNO_CLEANUP_ADD&utm_content=001> > | More info > <http://blog.boxbe.com/general/boxbe-automatic-cleanup?tc_serial=17728646886&tc_rand=2010081364&utm_source=stf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANNO_CLEANUP_ADD&utm_content=001> > > > The Ancestry/Rootsweb servers were indeed down for about ten > days due to an unprecedented outage. No mails made it to any of > the Lists they host, including ours, during this period. Two of my > mails were returned as ''not claimed by the Servers''. However, > with these mails of yours, Kerry and John, it's clear that the traffic > has resumed. But, as John says, unless someone writes, there would > be no mails to read .... > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Feltham" > > G’day Kerrie, > > On 24 Jun 2014, at 6:14 am, Kerrie Farmer wrote: > > << Is it my computer or is the India list site "down"...as I am not getting > any mails from India list. >> > > No, it is not ‘down’. > > Your msg just.appeared. > > You only get msgs if someone writes them! :-) > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Narendra