New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- 109 years later, the Madhya Pradesh family that had attempted to recover the unpaid debt of Rs.35,000 dating back to pre-Independence times has received a response from the British government.

At the time, a prominent businessman in Sehore advanced Rs.35,000 to WS Davis, the then-political agent in Bhopal under the British Raj. The issue came to light after a third-generation family member claimed that the British had taken a war loan from his grandfather that remains unpaid to this day, PTI reported.

Seth Jumma Lal Ruthia died in 1937, 20 years after giving the loan to the British government, and the colonial rulers left India a decade later in 1947.

Vivek Ruthia, the grandson of the late businessman Seth Jumma L...