On Monday 04 Jun 2012 9:35:42 am John Sundman wrote: > His satire of the British class system, and the upper class in particular, > could be quite savage
I think that it was a curious anachronistic fact that while Wodehouse was writing his satire in America in an era when the british upper class was being democratized, Indian schools were traing Indians to appreciate the language and attitudes of that very upper class of Britain. Indian youth who learned English often got the language directly from Britons (my parents' era) or from Indian or anglo-Indian teachers in "Public schools" of the type that were attempted mirror images of "uppah class" British "Public" schools of the Eton/Harrow/Rugby genre. Indian schools like Lawrence school Lovedale, and Doon school were at the apex of this list, and my own school, the Bishop's school in Poona belonged in that genre, if not that class. We all had "Houses", "Prefects" etc. Our English accents had to be right and our reading material was the "Classics". shiv
