About: Kutcha butcha

Kutcha butcha (कच्चा बच्चा) is a Hindi phrase that means "half-baked child”, and is used to refer to biracial people of (East) Indian and (white) British ancestry. The expression consists of two words: kutcha, meaning “uncooked” or “underdone,” and butcha, which literally means “child”. The two words together translate roughly as a child who resembles half-baked bread. It is primarily a derogatory term, meant to indicate the inadequacy of the individual, being neither Indian nor British, and it emphasizes the lack of belonging generally experienced by these individuals. Kutcha butcha is colloquially synonymous with half-caste, terminology that is characteristic of hypodescent, which occurs when offspring of mixed-race unions are assigned to the ethnic group that is perceived by the dominan