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Indian knights. This category is about people from British India who were conferred British knighthoods prior to 1947, when it was partitioned into the independent nations of India and Pakistan. An Indian knight was a male indigenous British subject of a country under the British Raj before 1947, who was appointed a Knight Grand Cross / Knight ...
Those Indian rulers who received other British orders of knighthood were only considered honorary members of those orders. [ citation needed ] The following is a partial list of honorary British knighthoods as given to Indian rulers and members of the ruling families up to 1947 (the Orders of the Star of India and the Indian Empire are ...
An honorary award is one made to a person who is not a citizen of a Commonwealth realm. He or she cannot use the pre-nominal style of 'Sir' or 'Dame', but can use the post-nominal letters (after their names), subject to the prevailing conventions in his or her own country. If such a person later acquires citizenship of a Commonwealth realm ...
The Star of India emblem, the insignia of order and the informal emblem of British India, was also used as the basis of a series of flags to represent the Indian Empire. The order was the fifth most senior British order of chivalry, following the Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle, Order of St Patrick and Order of the Bath.
The Lord Botham OBE (born 24 November 1955), knighted in 2007 for services to charity and to cricket. Sir Alastair Nathan Cook CBE (born 25 December 1984), knighted in 2019 for services to cricket. Sir Geoffrey Boycott OBE (born 21 October 1940), knighted in 2019 for services to sport. Sir Andrew John Strauss OBE (born 2 March 1977), knighted ...
The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria on 1 January 1878. [1] The Order includes members of three classes: Appointments terminated after 1947, the year that British India became the independent Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan.
Indian nobility. India–United Kingdom relations. Recipients of orders, decorations, and medals of India. Indian recipients of British honours.
Straits Settlements. The British Raj (/ rɑːdʒ / RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') [10] was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, [11] lasting from 1858 to 1947. [12] It is also called Crown rule in India, [13] or Direct rule in India. [14]