Class structure of the past
Sir,—lt is better to remember our past with its shortcomings, and forgive these where appropriate, than to forget our past. The proposal to conserve the grave of two Indian servants of Sir John Cra-croft-Wilson is not a validation of the master-servant status of AngloIndian days, but an honouring of
the contribution of the Indians who came with Sir John to the development of Christchurch. These Indians and Sir John must have had good long-term relations, as is evidenced by his building of the Old Stone House for their use in 1870, by his leaving his sword to one of them, and by his leaving of a house in Hoon Hay Road for their use. Sir John died some 20 years before Wuzerah and Kalloo. Who was responsible for putting only surnames on the headstones as criticised by J. B. G. Dowie? I do not know. — Yours, etc., NORMAN ROBERTS. December 4, 1985.
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