5 SEPTEMBER 1947, Page 17

THE ANGLO-INDIANS' CASE

Snt,—Mr. Empson may well be one of those who created and perpetuate the hierarchical tenet that an Anglo-Indian is, and must remain, "a subordinate," and vice versa. Of those I listed none was an alumnus of the Lawrence schools, but from La Martiniere colleges, Lucknow and Calcutta ; St. Paul's and St. Joseph's, Darjeeling ; various railway schools ; St. Xavier's and Daveton Colleges, Calcutta ; and Bishop Cotton Schools, Ootacamund and Simla, all of which Mr. Empson (with dyed-in-the-wool intolerance) categorises as "generally hard up."—Yours, &c.,