can britishers ask for pension/privy purse like ex rulers of india from Govt of India?

Question

There is news item in ToI of 1/10/07 ahmedabad edition that great.....great grand daughter of Bahadur shah Zaffar has asked for pension and residence like red fort .
On the same lines can those britishers who ruled india ask for rashtrapati Bhavan and pension form GoI being ex -rulers of india

Answer 1

My dear friend this Privy Purse you talk about was Abolished by THE CONSTITUTION (TWENTY-SIXTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1971 by then Prime Minister Mrs.Indira Gandhi. Let me quote the STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS for such bill that was passed by the parliament & made a law:-

The concept of ruler ship, with privy purses and special privileges
unrelated to any current functions and social purposes, is
incompatible with an egalitarian social order. Government have,
therefore, decided to terminate the privy purses and privileges of the
Rulers of former Indian States. It is necessary for this purpose,
apart from amending the relevant provisions of the Constitution, to
insert a new article therein so as to terminate expressly the
recognition already granted to such Rulers and to abolish privy purses
and extinguish all rights, liabilities and obligations in respect of
privy purses. Hence this Bill.

Now if this great.... great grand daughter of Bahadur Shah Zaffar has asked for pension & residence like Red Fort, which is actually she is seeking the privy purse & special privileges that is no more in existence is her foolishness & no government will agree for her such demand. As far the British who ruled India were no doubt the civil servants of the British government who were posted here on government duty & they were given pension & other privileges by the British government on their retirement, why should government of India provide for their pension & special privileges when they never worked as civil servant for government of India? It was the British government that ruled on India through its civil servants not these civil servants on their own accord & even for the sake of argument we take them as the ex-ruler of India as you call them, then this Constitutional amendment I mentioned above it stops any such privy purse/pension or special privileges for them too. Hope this satisfy your curiosity & in case this great...great grand daughter of Bahadur Shah Zafar reads this reply will too cool down.

Answer 2

British Government servants are their servants, not Indian Governments employees. There Government must be paying there pension. Regarding privy-purse, it is an agreement with the rulers, who were in existence, during Independence and joined the Union of India.

Answer 3

They including Bahadur shah Zaffar great grand daughter must be kicked on their xxxx

Answer 4

no, looters and criminals are not qualified.