My interest in the Anglo-온라인카지노 community grew out of my marriage to June Davy in 1992, an Anglo-온라인카지노 from Jabalpur. I became a part of her family and the extended community—witnessing births and funerals, christenings and baptisms, celebrating marriages and Christmas, enjoying country music and the Jive and savouring Anglo-온라인카지노 cuisine.
Over the years, I observed a certain dichotomy within the community. There were Anglo-온라인카지노s who married into other communities and assimilated with the mainstream of 온라인카지노 society. Some others continued to follow their traditions in relative isolation.
The term ‘Anglo-온라인카지노s’ came to define people of mixed descent combining 온라인카지노 and British or European ancestry. Their forebearers immigrated to India in service of the British East India Company and the community came into existence as a result of intermarriages between British and European men and local women.
In the 500 years of their existence, the Anglo-온라인카지노s developed their own lifestyle and cultural traditions distinct from other 온라인카지노s. The Anglo-온라인카지노 identity came into itself – the language, the dress, the food, the accent, the mannerisms and the homes that preserved English and European aesthetics.
A vast majority of Anglo-온라인카지노s left India for England, Australia and Canada in the lead-up to and immediately following the partition in India in 1947. A few migrate every year even today. These combined with inter-marriages and rapid westernisation of 온라인카지노 society–point to a fair degree of assimilation of the Anglo-온라인카지노 society into the 온라인카지노 mainstream.
I travelled across India for over two years (2004-2006) making portraits of people from different walks of life–railwaymen, tea planters, models, performers, educationists, business professionals, writers, farmers and students. My journeys took me to Jabalpur, Bhusawal, Dehradun, Mussoorie, Kolar Gold Fields, Whitefield, Darjeeling, Dooars, Jharsaguda, Khurda Road, Chakradharpur, Agra, Jhansi, Santraganchi, Pune, Lonavla, Lucknow, Allahabad, Bilaspur, Pondicherry, the Nilgiris, Fort Cochin, Thangaserri, Vypeen and other 온라인카지노 metros.
These portraits attempt to probe the dichotomy, the assimilation and the inherent flux within the community.
Dileep Prakash is a self-taught photographer who studied history, and has been photographing since the 1980s
