Monday, January 29, 2007

India in 1835 ...

LORD MACAULAY'S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :2ND FEBRUARY, 1835

"I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such high caliber, that I dont think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage! Therefore I propose we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will loose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation!"


And Alas ! we fell pray to their strategies :-(

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