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it is still highly significant that the Urdu sources usually refer to the British not as angrez (the English) or as goras (whites) or even firangis, but instead almost always as kafirs (infidels) and nasrani (Christians).

Just as an aside, the world ‘Nawab’ became ‘Nabob’ under the British. It was then shortened to the word ‘nob’, and later crept into the English language, signifying a person of wealth and high social position. This is just one example of the many hundreds of words that have found their way into the English language as a result of the British