Chapter 2: No Man’s Land

Duncan Ross who arrived from India, aged eight, in 1956.

Duncan Ross, an Anglo-Indian, left Calcutta for the UK with his parents and older sister. Only in London did he discover he was ‘brown’ – the rest of his family was white. Although having worked for years as a popular Anglican priest in east London he still fears, when he hears Farage speak on the radio, that he will be sent back to India. On a return trip to Calcutta, in his 50s, he revisited the trauma of seeing a boy killed in the riots – he had been having flash backs for years.