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English or Indian, that they had the best of both worlds or the worst of both worlds,that they were neither one nor the other? There were only clumsy tags.Joan began to search the history books. All she found was that in the seventeenthcentury the British encouraged their men to marry Indian women and in thetwentieth century the community resulting from such marriages were classedsometimes as English, sometimes as Indian, depending on the politics of imperialism.Official history dismissed Anglo Indians as the silent partners of the Raj and recordedonly the big events and famous names.There were many other histories - of Anglo Indians who engineered roads andrailways, taught and nursed in isolated towns, served the Customs, Posts andTelegraphs, policed the streets during the frequent and sometimes violent hartals(strikes) or curfews because they could be trusted by both Hindus and Muslims.She would see Simla again. She would see India for herself. She would write herstory as part of the story of many others. This would not be the history of officialevents, beginning with the East India Company and ending with independence, northe collective past of the Raj, but the story of individual lives - some heroic, someshiftless, some open minded, some ignorant - whose voices had not yet been heard.Then she would be free to visit Australia. This time she would not be a colonialwith something to prove or an exile with something to forget, but a traveller freeto see a country for the first time .... Elizabeth Burness, Diane Beckingham, Jack Bedson, Kevin Brophy,Adrian Caesar, Kyla Casey, Judy Cluss, Sandra De Lacy, AndreaGawthorne, Julie Gleaves, Alan Gould, Jeff Guess, Robert Hood, LeslieFowler, Jill Jones, Manfred Jurgensen, Yve Louis, Justin Lowe, PeterMagee, Brian Matthews, John Morrison, Munganye, Geoffrey Quinlan,David P. Reiter, Graham Rowlands, Rosie Schmedding, Kay Waters,Debbie WestbUry, Geraldine Wooler ...(where can you find them between two covers?)Redoubtin permanent works, a work within an outworkSubscriptions ($16 for 4 issues) toDavid P. Reiter, Managing Editor,Redoubt, Canberra CAE,Box 1, Belconnen 261626WESTERLY, No.2, JUNE, 1989