I've long wondered about the Indo-Anglian poet Henry Louis Vivian Derozio , one of the first in these parts to use that language.
Thanks to initiatives like the Wikipedia, there is today more information available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Vivian_Derozio QUOTE Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was a fiery Indian teacher and poet. As a lecturer at the Hindu College of Calcutta, he invigorated a large group of students to think independently; this Young Bengal group played a key role in the Bengal renaissance. Derozio was generally considered an Anglo-Indian, being of mixed Portuguese descent, but he was fired by a patriotic spirit for his native Bengal, and considered himself Indian. UNQUOTE It's all the more amazing that he achieved so much while living till just the age of 22! Here's another quote: "His father was a mixture of India and Portuguese and his mother was English. The Portuguese family name was originally DeRozario, but was changed by his father. Even though Portugal was a dominant colonial power in the Goa region of southwest India, several persons who shared that ancestry migrated to Calcutta and remain important to this day." http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/derozi~1.html Other tributes: Derozio still moves city Anglo-Indians http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Derozio-still-moves-city-Anglo-Indians/articleshow/17902015.cms If you look at films like "Bow Barracks Forever", you'd realise that a lot of people with typically Goan-sounding names are considered to be "Anglo-Indian" in parts of eastern India. Was wondering if Derozio had any Goan connection... any ideas? Btw, here's any interesting quote from the history of early colonialism: " Father Thomas Stephens, who went to Goa in 1579, was the first Englishman to settle in India, and Anglo-Indian literature began with his letters, of no extrinsic value, to his father, which have been preserved by Purchas. Master Ralph Fitch, merchant of London, travelled in India and the east from 1583 to 1591, and his lively description of his adventures, preserved by Hakluyt and Purchas, was of the utmost value to those who sought to promote an English East India company." http://www.bartleby.com/224/1001.html -- Frederick Noronha Goa,1556 :: Books from Goa :: http://tiny.cc/goa1556
