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Abdul was a Pakistani. They are falsely showed him as an Indian in the Movie.

@MONK the period depicted is before partition when there was no Pakistan. I'm a die hard Pakistani but do not view history with a tinted lense.

@MONK Abdul was indian. He was born in jhansi died in Agra. And for your information it was only India back than. No other country was formed.

@MONK Well, there was not a Pakistan around in the 19th Century, to state the blindingly obvious! However, it is worth noting that Abdul Karim's descendants, living grandly in Agra till 1947, left for Pakistan after Partition (their Agra property was then confiscated by India and distributed amongst Hindus). So a proto-Pakistani, then, I suppose....;-) To be fair, there would be many Muslims from what was British India that we do claim as Pakistanis, but who died before 1947; just consider our national poet, Allama Iqbal. Anyway, perhaps a more pertinent point to make is that notwithstanding Abdul Karim's loyalty, he was detested by everyone but the Queen for racial reasons, yet another insight into the ugly reality of Colonial Britain. On her death, he was immediately sent back home, but not before a thorough attempt to expunge as many traces of his relationship as possible was done; the vast collection of letters he shared with the Queen was seized and then burnt by the new King.

@SYED H he died in Agra.

@SYED H - There was no Indian Federation either. There were princely States in a region called ' India' by the British Raj but it had nothing to do with current Indian Federation that has taken the same name.