The British pop singer, Cliff Richard, was born Harry Rodger Webb in the King's English Hospital in Lucknow. His family later moved to Calcutta before leaving India for good when he was around eight years old.
The Durand Cup, Indian football's premier football tournament is named after Mortimer Durand, a British civil servant. So is the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Durand Line.
The British had the gall to call Robert Clive 'Clive of India' as if he belonged to the country, when all he really did was to ensure that much of the country belonged to him.
The British breakfast dish of Kedgeree, which consists of rice, smoked haddock, eggs, parsley, and butter or cream, is said to have been adapted from the Indian Kichidi.
Prior to 1956, State Bank of India was actually the Imperial Bank of India which itself traced its roots to the Bank of Calcutta which was established in 1806.
