Most of the sarcastic comments, the tone and the nature of sarcasm does not even parse for a westerner.
In fact you will see a lot of Indian language sarcasm directly "translated" to English leading to hilarious situations.
British just came, looted and left. It would be good if people stopped attributing every god-damned thing about India to the "British Influence".
My bad. I just wondered, considering that British humour is a lot dryer than American humour. I apologize if my comment was misconstrued in anyway.
At the height of British occupation , there were not more than 1700(!) British people at the same time on the Indian subcontinent. Which itself is a fantastic testament to the British Raj's bureaucratic machinery. The English education was an instrument in creating that machinery.