British nationality (born in India)

Records

• British Library records IOR/L/ PJ/8/1-76 Collection 101: Aliens ‎ (1931-1950)] includes IOR/L/ PJ/8 /13-15 Coll 101/10; British Nationality Bill ‎ (Jul 1947-Feb 1948) , Coll 101/10/1; British Nationality Bill and Act, 1948 ‎ (Feb 1948-Aug 1948) and Coll 101/10/2; British Nationality Act, 1948: interpretation and operation ‎ (Aug 1948-Apr 1950)
• The Society of Genealogists has records referred to as the Anglo Indian Research papers, two boxes containing about 400 cases of correspondence relating to work undertaken by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy-Smith and the SoG in 1949-1950 on behalf of British Subjects and their descendents in the Indian sub-continent and at home, seeking to prove their nationality under the 1948 British Nationality Act. A name index attached to the papers supersedes that published by the British Families in India Society.

External links

• Government publications
  • British Nationality: Summary gov.uk
  • The British Nationality Acts gov.uk
  • British Nationality Act 1948 legislation.gov.uk
• Wikipedia
  • History of British nationality law
  • British subject
  • British Nationality Act 1948
• British Subjects, Far East (Status) Hansard 21 July 1949 vol 467 cc1527-8
• Indian Born British Subjects (Status) Hansard 03 November 1949 vol 469 c565
• The Way We Are: An Anglo-Indian Mosaic page 6, chapter "Never Give In" by Moira Breen (2008) indicates that the author’s father, who was born c 1890s in Hyderabad, a Princely State, was deemed to be not British,even though his father had been a clerk in the British Residency in Secunderabad, which was a British cantonment area.