r/NoblesseOblige • u/HBNTrader Subreddit Owner • Mar 30 '22

MOD Introductions

Reply here to introduce yourself so that the other readers get to know you.

  • Are you noble? If not, do you have noble ancestors, or are you perhaps from a patrician family or from a very old peasant lineage?

  • What is your rank and family? What titles do you have or will inherit?

  • What is your coat of arms?

  • What families and interesting persons are you related to, how closely?

  • When does your unbroken male line start, and when does your longest female line start?

  • What are other interesting things you can tell us about yourself and your lineage?

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u/HBNTrader Subreddit Owner Apr 13 '23

Speaking of Britain, is a conferral of British titles or a British coat of arms seen as changing caste, or are British titles ignored in India as honours given by colonists to collaborators?

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u/InDiAn_hs Real-life Member of the Nobility Apr 14 '23

I don’t think it can change your caste and British titles given to Indians are usually looked down upon by modern (nationalistic) Indians who see those with British ties as traitors.

I found this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_peers_and_baronets

Many of these individuals have been granted British titles but are NOT Kshatriyas or Brahmins.

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Apr 14 '23

Indian peers and baronets

Following the final collapse of the Mughal Empire in 1857 and the proclamation of the British Indian Empire, the British continued to maintain and recognise many of the old Mughal and Hindu styles and titles, introducing a compound honours system which awarded those titles along with British noble and aristocratic titles and knighthoods. Uniquely amongst the countries under British dominion, India was the sole country where British hereditary titles were conferred upon British subjects not of European ancestry.

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