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Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book? Click here Would you like to report this content as inappropriate? Click here Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? He built up a good trading company in India and went into partnership with a person called Arbuthnot. His wife and children went back to England, but he was barred from going there for many years due to the political situation. He finally was able to retire to England when he was in his 70s. His grandson, my great great grandfather went back to India where he became a supreme court judge.
My great grandfather was born there, he studied medicine in London and after marrying emigrated to New Zealand in the s. His two brothers also emigrated to New Zealand and now nearly everyone with the surname deLautour lives or is connected with New Zealand and there are occasional reunions held. On my mother's side her grandparents were from Ascot - Under - Wychwood and her grandmother was one of the "Ascot Matyrs" Several of that group emigrated to New Zealand and I speculate that the money they got from Queen Victoria and the Agricultural Workers Union by way of compensation after they were pardoned helped them on their way.
So here I am living and working in Korea, having inherited, seemingly, a need to roam. However, I am a New Zealander through and through. I will always return there and I have enormous respect for those people who have left their homeland for good for what ever reason. I have a distinct memory of my time there although some is clearly imagined as my family returned to the UK when I was three years old!
My grandfather was a tea planter in Assam and my great grandfather was a ship's pilot in India having gone out there in the s. After my aunt died recently I came across a journal which my great grandfather had kept of his time in India. He went out to Calcutta in and was there introduced to Madeleine who became his future wife. Madeleine was Anglo Indian we believe though the journal referred to her as being of "Italian" appearance no doubt an expression of the cultural reality of the time.
The journal describes my greatgrandfather's assiduous courting of my greatgrandmother and the social life of Calcutta during that period. It becomes more dramatic when my great grandfather describes an argument he and the rest of the crew of his boat had with the Captain of the ship. The dispute arose over shore leave and why it was being denied to some members of the crew.
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The eventual result of this was my great grandfather being sentenced to one month in prison. The journal describes in detail his experience in the jail: I have allways felt an affinity with India and Sri Lanka through my family links but to read about this through the writings of my great grandfather was fascinating. Arthur Duncan My dad, born Sunderland area, in , enlisted in the Royal Artillery, aged 16 or so, and served 7 years in northern India, parts of which became Pakistan. He was never outwardly racist, but in the 's I remember 2 carpet-sellers - the 1st Sikhs I'd seen - came to our door and dad delighted in seeing them off with a half-jovial tirade in Punjabi.
Later, as a 'resting' actor, I found myself 'temping' with a bunch of Caribbean guys in a sweet factory. He shook my hand instead, and the patois was dropped while I was with them. All his childern were all born on the various railway stations along the line. Leaving the railway he settled in a small town of Molo near Nakuru, Kenya were my father took over the family buisness, and that is were I was born. The area was known as the White Highlands there was segregation between whites Indians and Blacks this is my abiding memory.
My father fought for Kenyan independence on behalf of the local black popultaion but he also maintained a good working relationship with the colonial rulers and administrators of the time. After independence in the 's I as an Indian was the first to be allowed to attend the local exclusive European school at the age of 7.
My father fearing a basklash from the newly independent Kenyan blacks left for India in He retained our British citzenship and later moved to the UK as an economic. Having learnt the British way of life in Kenya integrating in the UK was not too difficult except for the intense racisim we as a family experienced in the early 70's. In England we retained our Indian culture against this hostilty.
When the Ugandan Asians came they celebrated Diwali in our school and I was fearful that such an open display of Indian culture would cause more hostility. They also were given Vegetarian meal option at school. Today I am proud of my heritage and background which many British people are embracing as multiculturalism.
I thought I would never see acceptance looking back colonialto my past. Nikki Culver After the war, and the death of my Grand Father my Gran decided to make a fresh start and left England to settle in what was then Southern Rhodesia. I think that after the years of war and the harshness of day to day living she found the promise of sunshine, no food rationing and a thriving,and indeed growing economy too good to pass up.
Glenis Gillis I was born and raise in Guyana formerly British Guiana and my mother and father were both born in British Guiana a former colony of England. The Guyanese culture as well the other English speaking Caribbean culture is very similar to that of England. You know cricket is big; hot cross buns is a must around Easter, Boxing Day for me, even though its been fazed out now, eating scones, etc. I went to England in , to study Journalism in Manchester, and having lived in the US for some eleven years now, it was great to visit the place, experience the culture that has influence my life and will forever influence me.
The delete button on my computer is a bit worn because I have to hit it to correct my words so that the spell checker doesn't mark it has wrong. Oh and one other thing the British Empire has played in my family's history. My great-great grand father came from Madeira, Portugal, my great-great grandmother was a child on an indentured servant ship from Madras, India, my other great-great grandmother came from China, and my great-great grandfather was a slave from Barbados.
And that's only on my mother's side of the family. Even though the introduction of slave and indentured servants was another holocaust of its time, but because of it I am here today. A decedent of all those great-great grandparents who came to British Guiana, either to improve their lives, as I've been told by my grandmother, and the others who were forced to Guiana, I am now living in the US another former British Colony to improve my own life. Arvind Bhatt Born in Calcutta founded by british , migrated to Uganda british protectorate , taught history of empire how good it was for us, the ruled , taught English and how superior it is to my language, Gujarati , expelled from Uganda by Amin trained by british , came to Leicester and faced racism, learnt more about the West and the real history of the empire.
I collect books on the raj, am intersted in the role of british women in imposing racism in 18th and 19th centuries in India.
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Geraldine Taylor-Thomas My grandfather was posted to India in the late s as a bandsman with the British army. He married my grandmother, a girl from Goa of mixed English, Portuguese and Indian descent, at St Mary's, West Ridge, Rawalpindi in , and moved on to work with the railways, travelling around a great deal. My mother was born in Rawalpindi, her sister in Lahore and her brother in Saharanpur. All three boarded at The Lawrence School, Sanawar. I'd guess there were few mixed-race kids then - my uncle was known affectionately as "darkie".
Ties with India were severed before partition and the family returned to England. They called it "home" even though they had never been there. My mother, who had worked as a governess to military families, was unable to find a comparable job in London. I grew up in the post-war fading days of Empire, entranced by stories of India. In I left England for Hong Kong and have "stayed on" working as an English transcriber with the judiciary. Ten years ago, on a trip to India, I walked across the hills from Kasauli to my mother's old school - much as the children would have done in those far-off days.
Sanawar is now a school "for the sons of rich men" but is immensely proud of its heritage. The chapel has become a museum - a treasure trove. I found my mother's name among the list of candidates for confirmation - still in its frame on the wall.
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In a dusty corner lay a pile of honours boards. My uncle had been "Best Bat ". Of eight sisters, my grandmother had been the only one to come to England. Somewhere, I have an Indian family whom I'd dearly love to meet. Dennis Patrick Leyden My great-great grandfather in Ireland was as best I can tell a prison governor. The one who went to Australia served in the British army in WWI as did one of his nephews who was killed in France , and my great-grandfather the one who went to the US was killed in the New Jersey Black Tom rail yard explosions as a result of German sabotage an explosion that, while resulting in relatively few fatalities, was in terms of physical damage and press somewhat similar to the World Trade Center attacks.
But for the Empire, I probably would not exist today, and certainly neither would the US. I'll leave it to others to judge whether both these outcomes, on net, are good or are bad. George Nyabuga As a Kenyan, I am now aware, after the broadcast of a programme on the atrocities committed by the British military forces against the people of Kenya, particularly the Mau Mau, during the struggle for independence. Kenya attained full independence in December 12, after 75 years of British rule. Although its impact on the struggle cannot be fully determined and is largely a matter of conjecture, many posit that it did indeed accelerate the decolonisation process especially after the atrocities committed by the colonial forces against the African natives came to light.
Olgun Mehmet My story concerns my paternal grandfather and the Country in question is Cyprus. In the 's he volunteered to joined the British army and ended up fighting the Nazis in Greece. He was captured very soon after and was a prisoner of war for four years. The level of suffering he encountered was quite horrifying At the end of the war he was taken to Liverpool. This must have been at winter time because he could not believe his eyes when he encountered dense fog for the first time. He said when he stretched his arm he could not see his hand.
What a strange country to live in he always said. In , he was once again a prisoner of war in Cyprus as a result of the inter-communal conflict and Turkey's intervention. This time I was beside him in prison. I was only 15 and I remember him saying that it was inded a very peculiar world as in the 2nd world war he helped defend Greece and now the Greek Cypriots were imprisoning us. My Turkis Cypriot uncles joined the British army too and fought in Suez , Korea including serving in the British forces in the Cyprus crises Unfortunately she lost most of her family douring the war and ended up at a convent in Mombasa where she worked as a secretary.
She met and married my Dad who was a port manager for the Landing and Shipping company. I was only 5 when we left but my brother was at school in Arusha and he remember more. We left for South Africa and the social divide of Apartheid was shocking. Soon after my father died. Cancer and I'm sure a desperate sadness of having to leave East Africa contributed to my fathers death when I was aged 7. Babak As a tri-cultural migrant, I find it wrenching to try to separate myself into my putatively constituent parts—Iranian, British, and today, American.
My passports have a no less difficult time remaining valid, solid, and trouble-free. I am not sure if the sum exceeds its parts, but my mutt-like history makes itself felt in my life each and every day. Yet, somehow I wind my way through this rich, sometimes brutal, often dynamic American life, and extract what air I can from the smoggy cultural rainbow that is Los Angeles. I do what I do, and I am what I am, a tripartite cosmopolite who must practice politeness, ambition, even love in multiple cultures, and live and work according to the sometimes contradictory injunctions of a stitched-up suitcase of ethical, social and political values.
Mothered in Iran, I was drilled into adulthood in Thatcherite Britain, and struggled into maturity in a catholic yet culturally supremacist United States. In Iran, I was the odd middle-class boy-star destined for adoption by a still-admired post-imperial Britain, a native double-informant in-the-making. In Britain, I was the wog, the foreigner, and the exotic. My rub-up with Englishness has given me tools, bent and broken ones, but tools nonetheless, to map my way through the multidimensional minefield of a globalized world.
So far, I have managed to survive in several languages and cultures in part because Britain rubbed my young face in piles of imperial worldliness. For that, I give thanks, since you ask. Believe it or not, it played a key role in our Independence from Spain. In Sir Home Popham blatantly disobeyed his orders and decided to attack Spanish colonies in South America because Spain was weak as a result of the Napoleonic Wars and therefore increase commerce between the colonies and Britain.
The forces were led by General William Carr, viscount Beresford. The long and short of it is that the invading forces were repelled not only once but twice, because in Lt. Gen John Whitelocke had been appointed leader of an expedition to the River Plate to rescue Beresford and establish a British stronghold there. The victory of the local population everybody fought hard, soldiers, men and women made them realise that they did not need Spanish rule any longer, that they were mature enough for self-government.
In emancipation from Spain was declared, followed by Independence in Rajiv I was born and brought up in India, but feel a strong sentimental attachment to Britain. My parents went to Edinburgh in the late 50s for higher surgical training after their basic medical education in India. Incidentally my grandfather too had his advanced surgical training in Edinburgh in the early '20s. My parents met for the first time in Edinburgh. They lived in different parts of the UK for about 4 years and got married after they returned to India.
British gramophone records, novels, photographs, Christmas cards, etc, were a big part of my childhood. My parents often spoke to each other in English. They have fond memories of their years in Britain, and kept in touch with their British friends. After high school I was introduced to the BBC World Service by a friend, and it has been a major presence in my life ever since. I am glad that British culture has been such a major influence in my life, and feel that it has made me a better person.
Now, after living in the US for 10 yrs, I see the British as being one of the most refined and restrained peoples of all. Over a period of some years he built up an estate of over acres. He married a woman from Goa we believe she was half Indian and half Portugese although little is known about her as she died after only a few years of marriage and they had one son called Bertram.
Bertram ran the estate after his fathers death. Bertram had 2 sons and a daughter, all born and subsequently educated in Kandy. One of these was my father who came to England when he was 16 and rarely returned to S. However, his elder sister took on the running of the estate after her father died until most of the land was taken in the land reforms of the mid 's. However, she still lives in the Bungalow built by my Great-Grandfather in the late 's and I believe she must be one of the last "British" Esate owners still alive and living on the original estate all be it without much land.
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This family heritage has only resulted from Britain having an Empire and I believe it has given me a much broader view on life as a result. As a child, my father only give us snippets of information about Ceylon and his childhood. It has only been since being an adult that I have been able to explore our family history and to visit Sri Lanka. I believe we have been incredibly fortunate to have this background, both personally and as a nation. I still consider myself English. Schooling during the 50's we had our Headmistress and majority of other teachers come out from 'the old Country' or 'home'.
We certainly were taught all about the Empire in our History lessons. Empire Day on 24th May was celebrated with traditional folk songs and a fireworks display in the evening. During the early 80's my family decided to move to England. Holidays had never been long enough for us previously. We had four children and discovered just one of these were ever taught British History from ! All would have dearly loved to have been taught this on their curriculum. Is it any wonder so many youngsters these days do not have any idea of our historical background? Congratulations BBC on this wonderful web site.
It is a joy to listen to and yes, learn even more about our wonderful British Empire. Faith Brown My grandfather went to Guatemala as a parson with his three sons. Then he went to Jamaica. One son became a parson and returned to England, one became a successful businessman in Jamaica. My father worked in the Treasury before returning to England to read for the Bar and then went back to Jamaica.
He became a magistrate and my sister and I were born there. He became a judge and moved first to Guyana then British Guiana then to Zanzibar, back to Guyana and finally to Nigeria. There I met my husband who was a District Officer and we remained in Nigeria until l My sister married and lived in Kenya until her husband retired to Scotland. I think I can say that my family history was formed by the Empire. My father served under five monarchs and was proud to have done so and to have served the people of the various countries in which he worked as was my husband who served under both the British and Northern Nigerian administrations.
Duncan Rimmer I believe the empire has shaped my family history and more so for my daughter. I was born in Merton, South London and consider myself English but in a roundabout way. My mother is South African of Scotish and English decent.
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Scotish from my great grandfather who went to South Africa during the Boer War and stayed there after. The English is from Durham which is actually from Irish immigrants from Thurles. My Father is from Shropshire and probably has Welsh ancestry. But my daughter has even more to thank the empire for her grandparents. As well as my parents being English and South African her other grandparents are from Gibraltar and Barbados both of whom came to Britain to live. He told me fascinating tales of his service in the Boer war and between and at Gresham's school Holt, Norfolk, he trained officers among whom John Reith, who was later to become Governor-General of the BBC.
He later went on the serve on the Western Front after the death of his son, my uncle , on the field of battle. My grandfather to me, represented the England of the Edwardian era with Empire intact and would remain that way forever. He instilled in me the feeling of pride I have for my country. Whenever I hear the term "British Empire" the years melt away and I see myself sitting on the floor at his chair, listening to the stories of my dear grandfather. I would like to know where in India my family came from. I feel I am very much parts of the British Empire which I am carrying along with me for the rest of my life having to explain my background everywhere I go to people.
Eliza I'm disgusted by your programme. Where is the critical discussion of Britain's colonial past? Government could jail someone until they paid back their debt. Objectives Describe the geography and climate of the Southern Colonies. Describe the early history of Virginia. Explain how Maryland, the Carolinas, and. Five colonies that make up the south are: Chapter 3 Section 1: In King James I granted the request of a group of English merchants to found.