Abstract
This chapter draws on Terry Morris, an Anglo-Indian Australian country music singer, as a microhistoric case study in investigating the broader narratives of identity for diasporic Anglo-Indians settled in Australia. It demonstrates how Morris’ genealogy, life, immigration background, worldview and songs reveal the making and unmaking of the nuanced discourses of Anglo-Indian identity and history in Australia. The chapter attempts to discern Morris’ life and creative narratives that expound the large narratives of Anglo-Indian migration to Australia, whiteness accumulation and a consequent acculturation. The other aspect of Morris’ life and art reveals the potency of a subversion/narration of this dominant Anglo-Indian migration narrative through an internally transforming and ambivalent attitude unto the ‘white’ Australia(nness) or by unleashing a longing for India.
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