ABSTRACT
The British connection with India led to the complete transfer of power in 1947 on the basis of partition, followed by the creation in both India and Pakistan of federal parliamentary constitutions. Although the particular form taken by self-government was the result of historical forces the ultimate independence of India had for long been implicit in British policy. India with its great racial complexity offers an attractive field to the anthropologist, and scientists from many countries have conducted detailed research into nasal indices, head forms, pigmentation, stature, hair characteristics, and other features that form the accepted basis of ethnological classification. In some countries religion has been the determining element in nationality, and the might have been so in India but for the Muslim invasions and the caste system. India might in theory have contained more than one nationality. Indians have indeed shed their blood for one another and Indian nationality has become a reality.
