pulse1 (#305),
...there was still some vestiges of the 'old order' when I spent time there in the 1980s...
In 1979 I spent a month in Chennai (it was Madras at the time) commissioning a factory. The security guard at the door was dressed in a pseudo Indian Army uniform and gave me and my UK team a cracking salute every morning...
He would be a "
chowkidar" (watchman, guard) Might very well have been a soldier. If an old soldier, might remember times when all Sahibs were saluted when addressed.
Danny.