"that Britain had older ties with that part of the world"
Yes, you see that from those Shakespeare works like the Merchant of Mumbai, Julius Ceasaresh, and the prototype of every Bollywood movie, Romeo Ashok and Juliet Patel. Or when he writes "Something is rotten in the state of Punjab"....
Even Beowulf was known for its Sanskrit poem, and Grendel was of course hidden in the Indian forest.
But I guess the Indian caste system matches very well the British one...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
