But did they buy their own furniture?

摘要

When George Orwell wrote in 1941 that England was "the most class-ridden country under the sun", he was only partly right. Societies have always had their hierarchies, with some group-Boston's Brahmins, France's enarques, the Communist Party of China-perched at the top. In the Indian state of Bihar the Ran-veer Sena, an upper-caste private army, even killed to stay there.