Gavaskar Knighthhod

[m...@wvnvms.wvnet.edu]

Hi,
Can somebody post why Sunil Gavaskar was not given Knighthood.
Thank you
Srinivas

[Narendernath Miriyala]

For some reason, Indians are not eligible after independence from Britain.

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[Rama...@vos.stratus.com]

For the very simple reason that he is a citizen of the Republic of India,
amd therefore not a subject of the Queen of the United Kingdom and Great
Britain, and other dominions that have a Governor-General or have the
Queen as Head of State, though I'm not sure where Australia fits now :-)
No Indian has been knighted since 1950, and if I'm not mistaken, this
applied to Pakistan even earlier (1948?)

Membership in the Commonwealth is not enough.

-- Ramaswamy

[Amitabha Lahiri]

In article <1995Jan10.104723.12616@wvnvms> m...@wvnvms.wvnet.edu wrote:

> Can somebody post why Sunil Gavaskar was not given Knighthood.

He has already been given Sainthood which supercedes Knighthood.

Kapil Dev is in line for Godhood.

Amitabha
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Amitabha Lahiri MAPS University of Sussex A.La...@central.susx.ac.uk
No one else is responsible for what I say and vice versa.

[Rama...@vos.stratus.com]

In article <3evhad$8...@wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au> ti...@snrc.uow.edu.au (Tippu Hassan) wrote:
> In article 9...@franklin.cc.utas.edu.au, wa...@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Sam Waugh) writes:
>>
>>I think you can still technically get a knighthood in Australia seeing as
>>the Queen is the Head of State -- but not while there is a labor government
>>in power :-). Unless something wierd was introduced with the Australia Act.
>
> Nope, knighthoods are out even though the queen is still the head of state.
>

That probably means that (Sir) Allan Border will have to be content
with having his portrait hung in the Member's Gallery (Dining Hall?
I can't remmeber) at the MCG. :-)

-- Ramaswamy

[Lionel McLaughlin]

In article: <D29B9...@dcs.ed.ac.uk> s...@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Syed M. Ali) writes:
>
> In article <3eumv8$e...@transfer.stratus.com>, Rama...@vos.stratus.com writes:

> ]> In article <1995Jan10.104723.12616@wvnvms> m...@wvnvms.wvnet.edu wrote:
> ]> > Hi,
> ]> > Can somebody post why Sunil Gavaskar was not given Knighthood.
> ]> > Thank you
> ]> > Srinivas
> ]>
> ]> For the very simple reason that he is a citizen of the Republic of India,
> ]> amd therefore not a subject of the Queen of the United Kingdom and
> ]> Great Britain,
>

> The correct version is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain
> and Northern Ireland" :-)
>
>
> ]> and other dominions that have a Governor-General or have the

> ]> Queen as Head of State, though I'm not sure where Australia fits now :-)
> ]> No Indian has been knighted since 1950, and if I'm not mistaken, this
> ]> applied to Pakistan even earlier (1948?)
>
>

> Actually, Pakistan used to have a Governor-General till 1956,
> when the country was declared a republic. Actually, it didn't make
> much any difference, 'cause all the governor-generals that Pakistan
> had were Pakistanis (i.e. desis :-) Lord Mountbatten very graciously
> offered to take charge of both Pakistan and India as the joint
> Governor-General in 1947, but his offer was declined by the Pakistan
> government.
>
>
> ]> Membership in the Commonwealth is not enough.
> ]>
> ]> -- Ramaswamy
>
> Syed
> --
> ? ?Syed M. Ali?
>
>

But the question is , is Britain still GREAT ?
In 1995 will Northern Island still apart of the United Kingdom.?
Lets talk cricket gentlemen.

Lionel Mclaughlin

Derby, England
Lio...@lmclaugh.demon.co.uk

"We are not completing for the whole pie just for certain slices"