To the memory of the British empire in India,
Which conferred subjecthood upon us,
But withheld citizenship.
To which yet every one of us threw out the challenge:
‘Civis Britannicus sum’
Because all that was good and living within us
Was made, shaped and quickened
By the same British rule.
 -Nirad C. Chaudhuri, dedication of his book "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian" (1951).