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.
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".