looks like there was a British soldier in the wood pile.
Not really. Kataria is a Rajasthani name and he looks like his ethnicity.
FYI Europeans colonized Asia using local leaders, not deep settlement like the Americas. Anglo-Indians (community of Indians with British ancestry) are rare because of that and also because of the caste system and British Victorian values, which are both anti-mixing.
Moreover, the British were stationed in Bengal not Rajasthan, and most Anglo-Indians moved to the UK and Canada after the Partition so you're looking in the wrong part of the world.