A few of the British-raised Indians I've met were so British I thought that there were gonna come into work pretty soon dressed for polo riding a polo pony. Indian in name only.
>>The modern game of polo, though formalized and popularized by the British, is derived from the princes of the Tibeto-Burman kingdom of Manipur (now a state in India) in the Southeastern Himalaya, who played the game while they were in exile in India sometime between 1819 and 1826
Wikipedia entry.
Like so much, the British adopted so much from India - including so much of the Imperial pomp and paegantry and even formal dress that people thought polo was invented in the green fields of England.
With respect, that establishes nothing. The Brits originally got it from the Indians
The modern game of polo, though formalized and popularized by the British, is derived from the princes of the Tibeto-Burman kingdom of Manipur (now a state in India) in the Southeastern Himalaya, who played the game while they were in exile in India sometime between 1819 and 1826.
On the other hand many Indians who have found their way to Britain via Africa and there is a large Indian/Asian community in many of the ex Commonwealth countries in India do consider themselves British and sometimes side with the indigenous Brits against further immigration and pandering to certain groups.
Maybe the Indians you have had contact with are in fact those who fled Africa maybe as in the case of our local chemist Uganda under Amin.