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| {{short description|Badge for holders of certain titles bestowed by British India.}}
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| | name = Title Badge
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| | image = [[File:Diwan Bahadur Title Badge, India.png|144px]][[File:Rao Bahadur Medal.jpg|145px]]
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| | caption = Insignia for [[Diwan Bahadur]] and [[Rao Bahadur]]
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| | presenter = the [[Emperor of India]]
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| | type = Title holder's insignia
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| | eligibility = Native Indian civilians and [[Viceroy's commissioned officer]]s
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| | awarded_for = Faithful service or acts of public welfare
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| | status = No longer awarded
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| | established = 12 December 1911
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| | firstawarded = June 1912
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| | lastawarded = 1947
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| | image2 = [[File:Title Badge (India) 1st class. Ribbon.png|100px]]<br>Ribbon: 1st class<br>[[File:Waterloo Medal BAR.svg|100px]]<br>Ribbon: 2nd class<br>[[File:Title Badge (India) 3rd class. Ribbon.jpg|100px]]<br>Ribbon: 3rd class
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| '''Title Badges''' were presented to Indian citizens who received certain formal [[title of honor|titles of honour]] during [[British Raj|British rule in India]]. They ceased to be awarded in 1947 on Indian independence.
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| ==Establishment==
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| The system for bestowing titles on prominent Indians pre-dated the British presence in India. As part of a wider awards system, the British used these traditional Indian titles to reward native Indian civilians and [[Viceroy's commissioned officer]]s of the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] for faithful service and acts of public welfare.<ref name=Dorling>{{Cite book |author=Captain H. Taprell Dorling.|title= Ribbons and Medals|page=111|publisher= A.H.Baldwin & Sons, London|year=1956}}</ref>
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| At the [[Delhi_Durbar#Durbar_of_1911|Delhi Durbar celebrations in 1911]], King [[George V]] established a series of badges to be worn by title holders, enabling them to publicly display the title held.<ref name=Mussell>{{Cite book |author=John W. Mussell, editor |title=Medal Yearbook 2015|page=305|publisher= Token Publishing Limited, Honiton, Devon |year=2015}}</ref> The award was dis-established in 1947, upon Indian independence.<ref>Sharma, B. K. ''Introduction to the Constitution of India'', Published by Prentice-Hall, India, 2007, {{ISBN|8120332466}}, p. 83.</ref>
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| ==Classes==
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| There were three classes, each sub-divided to reflect the religion, and sometimes region, of the title holder.<ref name=Dorling/><ref name=Tagore>{{cite book |last1=Tagore |first1=Abanindranath |last2=Tagore |first2=Gaganendranath |title=Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance: Abanindranath Tagore's The Make-Believe Prince (Kheerer Putul); Gaganendranath Tagore's Toddy-Cat the Bold |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-909217-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVZxDwAAQBAJ&q=SARDAR+BAHADUR+TITLE+AWARDED&pg=PT282 |accessdate=12 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
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| '''First Class'''
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| *[[Sardar Bahadur]], ''for Muslims'';{{efn|Often also awarded to Sikhs from the Punjab.}}
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| *[[Diwan Bahadur]], ''for Hindus;''
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| '''Second Class'''
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| *[[Khan Bahadur]], ''for Muslims;''
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| *[[Rai Bahadur]] (North India) or Rao Bahadur (South India), ''for Hindus;''
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| '''Third Class'''{{efn|There may have been a ''Sardar Sahib'' Title Badge for Sikhs from the Punjab. Elsewhere they were rewarded as Hindus.}}
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| *[[Khan Sahib]], ''for Muslims;''
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| *[[Rai Sahib]] (North India) or Rao Sahib (South India), ''for Hindus.''
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| Those of other religions received the title considered most appropriate, for example native Indian Christians with a Hindu sounding name would receive a Hindu title,<ref name=Tagore/> with Jews receiving a Muslim title.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHJccZ92IecC&q=Khan+Sahib+title&pg=PA35 |title=The Jewish communities of India|author=Joan G. Roland|page=35|publisher=Transaction Publishers |year=1998|isbn=0765804395 |accessdate=2020-08-12}}</ref>
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| Title badges took precedence after all British and Indian orders and decorations, and before campaign medals.<ref name=Mussell/> In most cases, recipients proceeded from the lowest class to the higher grades, with only the most senior title, and badge, used. Ranking below a knighthood, these titles were dropped by any holder who became a knight of a British Order, for example the [[Order of the Star of India]] or the [[Order of the Indian Empire]].<ref name=Dorling/>
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| Members of the first class of the [[Order of British India]] could also use the title of ''Sardar Bahadur'', with members of the second class using ''Bahadur''.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=34694|page=6511|date=26 September 1939}}</ref> In these cases, the Title Badge was not worn.
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| ==Appearance==
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| The badge consisted of a radiant star topped by an imperial crown, with a laurel wreath draped below the crown. A central medallion bore the appropriate title on a band surrounding the crowned profile of the king, either [[George V]] or [[George VI]]. Facing right until 1933, the design was then changed to show George V's bust facing left. The George VI version showed his bust facing left.<ref name=Mussell/><br>The reverse was plain, and was engraved with the name and details of the recipient.<ref name=Mussell/>
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| All three classes were the same size: {{convert|58|mm|in}} in height and {{convert|45|mm|in}} wide, differentiated by their metal finish and ribbon:<ref name=Dorling/>
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| * 1st class: silver gilt with the title displayed on the central medallion enamelled pale blue. The ribbon was light blue edged with dark blue;
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| * 2nd class: silver gilt without enamel. The ribbon was red edged with dark red;
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| * 3rd class: silver with the title displayed on the central medallion enamelled dark blue. The ribbon was dark blue edged with light blue.
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| All three classes were worn around the neck from the {{convert|39|mm|in}} wide ribbon,<ref name=Dorling/> although the badge was sometimes unofficially worn on the left chest alongside other medals.{{efn|Confirmed by contemporary photographs, e.g. [[:File:C.S.Rathinasabapathy_Mudaliar.jpg| C. S. Ratnasabhapathy Mudaliar]]}}
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Raj Ratna]]
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| *[[Dewan]]
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| ==Notes and References==
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| {{Notelist}}{{reflist}}
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| {{Decorations of the United Kingdom}}
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| [[Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of British India]]
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| [[Category:Men's social titles]]
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| [[Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of India]]
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| [[Category:Awards established in 1911]].
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| [[Category:Awards disestablished in 1947]]
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| [[Category:Civil awards and decorations of the United Kingdom]]
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| [[Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of the British Empire]]
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| [[Category:Titles in India]]
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