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Old 04-08-2007, 14:08 PM   #61 (permalink)
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It might be a surprise for many of you, but during the time of the British in India, there were many hotels and restaurant and other places, where it was written "Indians and Dogs not allowed"!

I have heard and read of this but I have never seen a photograph of such a sign. Assuming it to be true (for the sake of argument) I think you should be pleased that the British thought not only that everybody in India could read English, but their dogs could also!
Chaps,

This is what I term as the British adroitness in converting a tricky situation to something totally innocuous.

As I keep telling you all, don't underestimate the British as a 'has been'.

Gyln,

You are old enough to have seen it had you visited India then.

But you are the wiser Briton. Who knows you could have been afflicted with those infernal diseases that afflicted the East India Company writers and the burra shahibs!
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