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This India List ==Records==*British Library records IOR/L/ PJ/8/1-76 Collection 101: Aliens ‎ (1931-1950)] includes [http://archiverhviewer.rootswebbl.ancestryuk/IamsHViewer/Default.comaspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000001220.0x000142 IOR/thL/readPJ/india8 /201013-0315 Coll 101/1270032492 thread10; British Nationality Bill ‎ (Jul 1947-Feb 1948)] discusses , 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 status for those born under the 1948 British Nationality Act. A name index attached to the papers supersedes that published by the British Families in IndiaSociety.<ref>page 35 [http://issuu.com/penandsword/docs/ancestorsmagazine57 ''Ancestors Magazine 57'']</ref>
==External links==*Government publications**[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267913/britnatsummary.pdf British Nationality: Summary] gov.uk**[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267907/britnatacts.pdf The British Nationality Acts] gov.uk**[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/56/contents British Nationality Act 1948] legislation.gov.uk*Wikipedia**[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_British_nationality_law History of British nationality law]**[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject British subject]**[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nationality_Act_1948 British Nationality Act 1948]*[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1949/jul/21/british-subjects-far-east-status#S5CV0467P0_19490721_HOC_9 British Subjects, Far East (Status)] Hansard 21 July 1949 vol 467 cc1527-8*[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1949/nov/03/indian-born-british-subjects-status#S5CV0469P0_19491103_HOC_20 Indian Born British Subjects (Status)] Hansard 03 November 1949 vol 469 c565 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=pP_TdfyFDQEC&pg=PA6 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 States|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. == References ==<references />
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