Alick Stark In Hostages to India Published by the Simon wallenberg Press says says about Colo Alfred Rowe

Lt Col Alfred Rowe writes about the plight of the Anglo Indian
girls at that time. “Almost overnight on the instigation of
the ‘ladies’ from England if a mixed marriage or a marriage to
an Anglo Indian girl took place, There was a revolt against his
conduct his comrades practically ostracised him under pressure
from their new English wives. Rowe writes “These English
women caused grief and misery with their immoral ways in
comparison with the native and Anglo Indian women”.
A verse from the lays of Ind says in regards to the European
women of the fishing fleet.
Pale faded stuffs by time grown faint
will brighten up through art;
A Britain gives their faces paint
For sale at India’s mart.
At times young English wives with old husbands got involved
in scandalous affairs with younger men and even eloped with
them. Here is another verse from the ‘Lays of Ind’.
Colonel White was over forty;
Jane, his bride was seventeen;
She was also very naughty
For she loved a Captain Green”!
The ladies from England made sure that the prevailing
public opinion should hold that when the occasion for intermar29
riage with Indians had disappeared, those who had recourse
to it forfeited all claim to condonation and it was made into
wanton outrage on society.
Clearly with the arrival of the European ladies in large numbers
due to the easy access via the Suez route that manners
and times suddenly changed. Mixed marriages would not be
tolerated and preference was to be given fishing fleet arrivals
over indigenous Anglo Indian girls, from this point of time.
As time passed, more and more European memsahibs appeared
on the scene and emerged as supporting stars in the
great imperial drama of the white mans burden to rule over
the coloured people. The memsahibs inculcated a feeling of
racial superiority and brought a little England in the midst of
India. Anglo Indian officers of the company, however high their
rank and length of service, now being of inferior and mixed
blood ceased to be invited to the homes and functions of the
pure European population. Unfortunately those who paid the
penalty were the hapless children of the British fathers and
Indian mothers.
The East India Company encouraged this type of apartheid
as it was the dawn of “enlightened imperialism”. For with the
Victorian church preaching a new Christian morality in Britain,
theft through conquest and subjugation of people outright could
not be justified and was against Christian values. Therefore
In order to justify a Private company’s conquest of a nation it
had to show to all, that the inhabitants India were enslaved
for their own good.
It was now the “White mans burden to rule over the inferior
races, the white man brought civilization to the childlike
Indian and African who needed to be led and was incapable
of managing his own affairs. Because to accept the Indians as
civilized would meant that colonisation over them could never
be justified, and would be in contradiction with the Christian
faith, there was no option but to disparage the natives and
consider them inferior, in the scheme of things where one side
was the master and the other the slave, one could say but its
for their own good we are here.