How is George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, an early twentieth-century English play meaningful in India now?

Shaw's play
is an attack on the pre-World War I British class system, which is similar in some ways to
India's current caste system. Although now illegal, the effects of the caste system are still
pervasive in India, as outlined in a recent CNN article by Ravi Agrawal titled "India's
caste System: Outlawed but still omnipresent."

Both the British class
system and the Indian caste system operate on the assumption that the class you are born to is
the one you belong in. It contends that lower class people are innately inferior to those of
higher classes or castes. According to this ideology, everyone should accept their place in the
social order without a murmur.

In , Shaw intends to show
that this assumption is ridiculous. Almost nobody from Henry Higgins's well-heeled, middle-class
world believes a lower-class Cockney flower...