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This is a list of knights companion of the Order of the Star of India.The Letters Patent of 23 February 1861 founding the Order were gazetted on 25 June 1861, [1] and established that the order would consist of the sovereign (the queen of the United Kingdom), the grand master (the viceroy of India, ex officio) and 25 knights, who bore the postnominal KSI.
Investiture of the Star of India, Delhi (detail), by George Jacomb-Hood. King George V is depicted awarding the GCSI to Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner, at the 1911 Delhi Durbar. The British Sovereign was, and still is, Sovereign of the Order. The next most senior member was the Grand Master, a position held ex officio by the Viceroy of India ...
Sir Joseph William Bhore KCIE CBE Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council. [264] Harry Graham Haig CSI CIE Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council. [265] Captain Nawab Sir Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan KCIE MBE of Chhatari, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of the United ...
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Pages in category "Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 302 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
The Knights of Columbus is a member of the International Alliance of Catholic Knights (IACK), which includes fifteen fraternal orders such as the Knights of Saint Columbanus in Ireland, the Knights of St Columba in Great Britain, the Knights of Peter Claver in the United States, the Knights of the Southern Cross in Australia and New Zealand ...
Freemasonry was an important catalyst in the founding of the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of Peter Claver in the United States [131] and the Knights of the Southern Cross in Australia, because one of the attractions of Freemasonry was that it provided a number of social services unavailable to non-members (e.g., devout Catholics).
An Indian knight was a male indigenous British subject of a country under the British Raj before 1947, who was appointed a Knight Grand Cross / Knight Grand Commander or Knight Commander of an honour in the British honours system, or who was appointed a Knight Bachelor.