It's worth bearing in mind that the definition of "people from Britain" was probably rather different from the one we'd use today - at least for the lower-end j

It's worth bearing in mind that the definition of "people from Britain" was probably rather different from the one we'd use today - at least for the lower-end jobs. For example, some of my own ancestors had rather well-paid jobs working on the Indian railways prior to independence that were probably the result of their British status. They'd also lived there for generations and were, by Western racial standards, Indian. (No-one from that branch of the family lives in India anymore. Things got rather ugly when independence happened.)