What nationality was your family before August 1947?

[terry5]

Subject of British empire . Servant of the king of England .

 

[RoadRunner401]

So people before 1947 what was the nationality of your family. Note nationality and NOT your ethnic, religious, tribe, clan etc group. This is only for people from South Asia. Vote and then give explanation.

Well, I was 2,556,000,053 in line for the British throne, but thanks to partition, My dream of becoming a Royal went out of the window, but the good news is after years and years of successful negotiations, I know find myself in line again # 7,584,821,144 so I suppose that will make me British

 

[Taimoor Khan]

When Idi Amin kicked all the Asians out of Uganda in 1970s most moved to Britain on the strength of them having British nationality on account of being born in what was before the British Empire. DEspite massive popposition by far right National Front in UK the British government allowed wave of migration from East Africa because of the ctatus of 'British subjects" enjoyed by former colonies.

And those RSS rats killed this man saying he was responsible for the partition of their "Great India". LOL

This chap was himself the "subject of British Raj". What to say about those RSS rats who were way down the packing order in those times.

Jinnah negotiated Pakistan from British Raj, not with Gandhi or these RSS goons.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Jinnah negotiated Pakistan from British Raj, not with Gandhi or these RSS goons.

Precisely. It is important to understand thatr Pakistan and India are successor states of the British Raj along with others like Myanmar etc


This logical flow chart explains this nicely.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Would Kashmiri's have been a part of British India?

Yes. British India was the legal name of a colonial administration which was composed of dozens of subsidiary entities like Punjab, NWFP, Sindh, Aden [Yemen], Trucial states [modern UAE], straits settlements [modern Singapore], Burma [modern Myanmar, Bengal, United Provinces, etc, etc.

It included directly administered entities like Punjab, subsidiary selg govrning entities like Kashmir or Trucial states [modern UAE] and all used the British Empire Rupee. All citizens were subjects of the empire. So if a Kashmiri or Arab from Aden [Yemen] or Trucial States [modern UAE] or Punjab had sided with Germans in WW2 he or she would be charged with treason by the crown.


The British Raj extended over almost all present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, except for small holdings by other European nations such as Goa and Pondicherry.[12] This area is very diverse, containing the Himalayan mountains, fertile floodplains, the Indo-Gangetic Plain, a long coastline, tropical dry forests, arid uplands, and the Thar Desert.[13] In addition, at various times, it included Aden (from 1858 to 1937),[14] Lower Burma (from 1858 to 1937), Upper Burma (from 1886 to 1937), British Somaliland (briefly from 1884 to 1898), and Singapore (briefly from 1858 to 1867). Burma was separated from India and directly administered by the British Crown from 1937 until its independence in 1948. The Trucial States of the Persian Gulf and the states under the Persian Gulf Residency were theoretically princely states as well as presidencies and provinces of British India until 1947 and used the rupee as their unit of currency.[15]

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Precisely. It is important to understand thatr Pakistan and India are successor states of the British Raj along with others like Myanmar etc


This logical flow chart explains this nicely.

Poor Gandhi got bullet for no reason. His ashes were stolen recently. Still in death, paying for something he never committed.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Well come onboard our esteemed member @Gangu

 

[Pakistani Fighter]

Precisely. It is important to understand thatr Pakistan and India are successor states of the British Raj along with others like Myanmar etc


This logical flow chart explains this nicely.

What about Nepal?

 

[Indus Pakistan]

What about Nepal?

Bizzarely Nepal was not part of erstwhile British Raj. But these places were -

• Modern UAE
• Parts of Yemen
• Modern Singapore
• Modern Myanmar

 

[Wood]

Subject of the British Raj. I would not be so bold as to claim citizenship of Britain. Is this a trick question to troll nationalists on either side?

 

[Indus Pakistan]

And had Britain won the Anglo-Afghan war most of Afghanistan would also have been "British India". Durand Line was drawn by British.

Subject of the British Raj. I would not be so bold as to claim citizenship of Britain. Is this a trick question to troll nationalists on either side?

Yes.

Did you guys know that the British Rupee was legal tender in what is now UAE?

 

[El Sidd]

Jinnah's passport said British subject by birth of the British Indian Empire.

The man born into slavery had by the time of his death freed millions and millions of Musalmans. Legacy of Jinnah

 

[jamahir]

So people before 1947 what was the nationality of your family. Note nationality and NOT your ethnic, religious, tribe, clan etc group. This is only for people from South Asia. Vote and then give explaination.

Voted Indian.

My paternal grandfather was some high official in Madras in South India.

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

Just like the Chinese, we also had "the century of shame"

 

[313ghazi]

Yes. British India was the legal name of a colonial administration which was composed of dozens of subsidiary entities like Punjab, NWFP, Sindh, Aden [Yemen], Trucial states [modern UAE], straits settlements [modern Singapore], Burma [modern Myanmar, Bengal, United Provinces, etc, etc.

It included directly administered entities like Punjab, subsidiary selg govrning entities like Kashmir or Trucial states [modern UAE] and all used the British Empire Rupee. All citizens were subjects of the empire. So if a Kashmiri or Arab from Aden [Yemen] or Trucial States [modern UAE] or Punjab had sided with Germans in WW2 he or she would be charged with treason by the crown.


The British Raj extended over almost all present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, except for small holdings by other European nations such as Goa and Pondicherry.[12] This area is very diverse, containing the Himalayan mountains, fertile floodplains, the Indo-Gangetic Plain, a long coastline, tropical dry forests, arid uplands, and the Thar Desert.[13] In addition, at various times, it included Aden (from 1858 to 1937),[14] Lower Burma (from 1858 to 1937), Upper Burma (from 1886 to 1937), British Somaliland (briefly from 1884 to 1898), and Singapore (briefly from 1858 to 1867). Burma was separated from India and directly administered by the British Crown from 1937 until its independence in 1948. The Trucial States of the Persian Gulf and the states under the Persian Gulf Residency were theoretically princely states as well as presidencies and provinces of British India until 1947 and used the rupee as their unit of currency.[15]

In that case we've been British for generations, for several hundred years. pehn di siri to the BNP types.