The Anglo-Indian community in Hyderabad feels they are being denied opportunities to protect their identity and culture as stipulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious, and Linguistic Minorities adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 1992.
After the World Anglo-Indian Day was observed on August 2, the Federation of Anglo-Indian Associations (FAIAI) and its constituent Anglo-Indian organisations on Sunday urged the government to address various issues they are facing and to declare Anglo-Indians a separate ‘Ethnic and Linguistic Minority’.
“We feel sad that the community is denied representation in Parliament and Legislatures. We hope the government will reverse this,” said Tyrron Whyte, an online literary magazine editor.
