What Scotland means to us

Though the Scottish referendum rejected independence, the very fact that Scotland was pondering its ties with England meant that the time has come for us in the ex-empire (and its last outposts like the Bengal Club and Gymkhana Club) to separate our Scots from our Brits. In India the British Raj was actually quite a bit the Scottish Raj. There are hordes of Indians with Scottish connections. You just have to go to the Glasgow Auld Students of Kolkata reunion to discover that. Here’s a guide to everything Indians know about being Scottish that is not Macbeth, who will hands down remain the most famous Scotsman everywhere because of English literature class