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unusual facts about British Indian



Nisha Patel-Nasri

Nisha Patel-Nasri was a 29-year-old Luton-born Hindu Gujarati British Indian of the Patel caste who grew up in London and ran a hairdressing business near her home in Wembley.

Paul Mayeda Berges

He has collaborated with his wife, British-Indian director Gurinder Chadha, on a number of films and made his directorial debut in 2005 with The Mistress of Spices, based on the novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.


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A Throw of Dice

and re-released at the Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada, on 13 June 2008, with a new orchestral score by British Indian composer, Nitin Sawhney.

Anirudh Ravichander

Another promotional song, "Chennai City Gangster", saw him collaborate again with Hiphop Tamizha and British Indian rapper Hard Kaur, with the trio also featuring in a music video for the film.

Baddoki Gosaian – Tomri Sahib Temple

Sanjeev Bhaskar, famous British-Indian comedian, actor and broadcaster, who is best known for his work in the BBC Two comedy series Goodness Gracious Me and as host of The Kumars at No. 42, also belongs to the Gosain Community.

Battle of Yenangyaung

The newly formed Burma Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General William Slim and consisting of British, Indian and locally raised Burmese troops, attempted to defend the Irrawaddy River valley, while the Chinese Expeditionary Force (in Burma) defended the Sittaung River valley to the east.

Bhowani Junction

It starred Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving with the British armed forces, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a (British) Indian Army officer.

Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan

Ch.Muhammad Sarwar Khan's grandfather Hashim Khan also served in the British Indian army during World War I in "58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force)" regiment and was awarded the Highest "Medal of Gallantry" during his service with Lord Kitchener in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.

Controversies surrounding the Indian National Army

Other political forces, including the communist party and its members viewed the INA as fascist-collaborators, and was instrumental in helping the British Indian police and security forces track down INA agents landed in India by submarine or Parachute during the war.

David Cowan

David Tennant Cowan (1896–1983), officer of the British Indian Army during World War II

Goldy Notay

It's A Wonderful Afterlife was a British-Indian co-production where she worked with the director of Bend it like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha who cast a range of British and Indian actors, including Shabana Azmi, Sally Hawkins, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Zoë Wanamaker.

Herbert White

Herbert Thirkell White (1855–1931), Lieutenant Governor of the British Indian province of Burma

John Smith VC

John Manners Smith, (1864–1920), lieutenant in the Indian Staff Corps, British Indian Army, and 5th Gurkha Rifles

National Capital Authority

There was also interest in Classicism by English architects, including Edwin Lutyens, who was responsible for many of the public buildings in New Delhi built from 1912 to 1929 in the wake of the decision to replace Calcutta as the seat of the British Indian government.

North East Island

North and East Island group, group of islands in the Blenheim Reef region of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory

Ohio Army National Guard

The decisive victory of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794), outside of present day Toledo and the subsequent Treaty of Greenville (1795) removed the combined British-Indian military threat to Ohio settlers for the time being.

Patrick Heenan

Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, 1910–1942, British Indian Army officer, alleged spy and traitor

Sudha Kheterpal

Sudha Kheterpal is a British-Indian musician best known as the percussionist in Faithless.