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HOW BRITISH DESTROYED INDIA
When Britishers first came to India, Britain's share in world exports before was only 9% as against India's share of 19%. Ernest Wood, in the book "A Foreigner defends Mother India" states No traveller found India poor until the ... (1/18)
When Britishers first came to India, Britain's share in world exports before was only 9% as against India's share of 19%. Ernest Wood, in the book "A Foreigner defends Mother India" states No traveller found India poor until the ... (1/18)
nineteenth century, but foreign merchants and adventurers sought her shores for the almost fabulous wealth, which they could there obtain. With a highly effective yet decentralised Education system that produced high competent students at the mere age of 16 to 18 , ...(2/18)
the Britishers were failing in having an effective control over the people of India. British found it very hard to push their agenda with a decentralised education system and wanted a centralised system. They understood that the Indian education system or the Gurukulams ...(3/18)
get funded by Maharaja’s, Temples and Mutts. They choked the source of the funding by taking over lands from the Maharaja’s and institutions. There are a lot of atrocious stories on how the british took over lands that were built for education, feeding people and temples. .(4/18)
By 1820, the British had already destroyed the financial resources that supported our educational system- a destruction that they had been carrying out for nearly twenty years. But still the Indians persisted in continuing with their system of education....(5/18)
Most of us are taught to believe that the education was in the hands of the Brahmins and in Sanskrit medium and that the other castes had no education. But here are the facts about how the British destroyed the Indian educational system and made one of the ...(6/18)
most literate nations illiterate. The British decided to find out the intricacies of this system. Therefore a survey was ordered in 1822 and was conducted by the British district collectors. In the survey it was found that the Bengal presidency had 1 lakh village schools, .(7/18)
in Madras there was not a single village without a school, in Bombay, if the village population was near 100, the village had a school. Teachers as well as students of all castes were in these schools. The Brahmins accounted 7% to 48% of the teachers, and the rest of the (8/18)
teachers in any district, came from other castes. Further all children had their education in their mother tongue. On 10th March 1826, Thomas Munro, the governor of Madras Presidency submitted a detailed Census to the British Government. (9/18)
As per the report there were 12,498 primary schools. Another interesting fact even Indians were not aware of was - only 24% of the students were Brahmins, Kshatriya and Vaishyas and Shudras constituted 65% of the students. (10/18)
Thomas Babington Macaulay who is famously called Lord Macaulay, was a British politician, who is known for introduction of English and western culture in the Indian education system. He was one person who mainly targeted the Indian education system and wanted to ... (11/18)
replace it with the British system. G.D.Trevelyan writes in "Life of Lord Macaulay"(vol 1 pg164) "A new India was born in 1835". What Alexander, Ashoka and the western missionaries had failed to do was accomplished by Macualay's educational minutes, ... (12/18)
decreeing that India was to receive through English education, the language of the West. "The very foundations of her ancient civilization began to rock and sway. Pillar after pillar in the edifice came crashing down." The British created ... (13/18)
incentives for learning English, they even paraded people who passed English exam on elephant this creating excitement for English learning.They choked avenues of revenues for the educated and made english learning as the only source and channel for making money. (14/18)
Once the education systems came into effect, there was no turning back. Our education system, gurukuls were the pillars of our culture. The British were successful in creating English speaking clerks and creating tensions between different caste - breaking the Indian .. (15/18)
society from within.
In Macaulay's letter dated 12th Oct.,1836, he wrote to his father:
"Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully; we find it difficult to provide instruction to all. The effect of this education on Hindus is prodigious. No Hindu who has ... (16/18)
In Macaulay's letter dated 12th Oct.,1836, he wrote to his father:
"Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully; we find it difficult to provide instruction to all. The effect of this education on Hindus is prodigious. No Hindu who has ... (16/18)
received an English education ever remains sincerely attached to his religion. It is my firm belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respected classes 30 years hence. (17/18)
And this will be effected without our efforts to proselytise; I heartily rejoice in the prospect". (18/18)
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