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To: arun gera who wrote (68089)	8/25/2005 1:36:10 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Arun, Re: "Your East Indian friend from the 1960's" I just called him and read him these posts and he says that you are dead wrong, the the Indian "upper class" no matter how you define it, is NOT English. And don't try to tell him that he is part English, for him those would be fighting words. <g> As far as " upper class" goes he reckons that the descendents of the "Native Princes" who ruled the country for the Brits would be at the top of the heap, some of them very wealthy and respected. My friend claims some kinship to one of those clans and he says among that class there is ZERO European blood. He comes from what once would have been called the "merchant caste" and many of these folk are the very wealthy business families that form the bulk of the most wealthy in India. He says that of this group, his very own people, he is not aware of a single English family in the whole country when he lived there growing up in the 1950's and 1960's. And he would be in a position to know. As a boy his family sent him to an expensive private school and his own father was a well known and respected man all over the country, the president of a national association of manufacturers in one of India's largest industries. Here is the proof: If Englishmen had stayed in India and become naturalized citizens of India, they would have retained their English surname or family name (Smith, Jones, Churchill, ect.). My friend says that to the best of his knowledge that there was not ONE SINGLE Indian family with an English surname or family name in the whole country years ago when he was growing up there. Tonight he is going to call his brother in New England and ask him if he knows of any English families among the Indian upper class. Slagle