Kutcha butcha (कच्चा बच्चा) is a Hindi phrase that means "half-baked child,” and is used to refer to biracial people of Indian and (white) British ancestry.
[2] During the period of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent, English colonists, many of whom were employed by the East India Company, were encouraged to marry with the locals.
As the English became more predominant, and the Portuguese and other Europeans left the subcontinent, the term Eurasian eventually became inaccurate, and was replaced with the more-desirable Anglo-Indian.
The term kutcha butcha was coined because of the stigma that began to be attached to members of this biracial community, and is indicative of the racism that can occur whenever people of different races marry.
Historically, it has been more desirable for Anglo-Indians to pass as British, as they “would perhaps have better job opportunities and class privileges.”[6] Often, in the time of the East Indian Company rule, children of such mixed-race marriages were divvied up and raised differently, depending on their skin colour.
Famous actresses such as Merle Oberon and Vivien Leigh hid their Anglo-Indian ancestry, as did ex-Beatle Pete Best.