<<Cornel wrote: There was definitely a middle class in 1947 and well before that in India. It was largely the educated/informed middle clas that propelled the Quit India movement surely.>>
Not really, sir! What you call the "educated/informed middle class" were the upper class people -- the landed gentry, though they were by and large comparable to today's middle class. Some of them were fabulously rich, like the Nehrus. It's said that Motilal Nehru offered to pay the British in the currency of their choice for India's freedom! There is hardly any evidence of a middle-class population in British India. There was a miniscule minority of WOGs and well-to-do businessmen and the vast majority of the poor and depressed classes -- though, towards the fag end of its regime, the British did make an attempt to create an English-speaking middle-class population of 'babus'. Regards, RKN _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
