OUR CULTURE ENVY OF OTHERS
Lord Macaulay's speech in the British Parliament on 2nd February 1835.
PS: 1) There is a debate on whether the correct year was 1833 or 1835, but what matters for Indians is the statement itself. I am also not able to give the name of a popular website as source for this. However the statement was available in multiple websites.
Lord Macaulay's speech in the British Parliament on 2nd February 1835.
"I have traveled 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
calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we
break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural
heritage, and, therefore, I propose that 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 lose their
self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them,
a truly dominated nation."
PS: 1) There is a debate on whether the correct year was 1833 or 1835, but what matters for Indians is the statement itself. I am also not able to give the name of a popular website as source for this. However the statement was available in multiple websites.
2) Currently there is a controversy going on about the veracity of the text though there is a note which is similar to lthis if not the whole text as opined in the - http://creative.sulekha.com/what-lord-macaulay-said-about-india-in-1835-every-indian-should-read-this_312173_blog and http://prabhuguptara.blogspot.in/2008/01/truth-about-lord-macaulays-address-to.html
Ramachandran V 11 09 2013 Will update as and when I get more information.
Ramachandran V 11 09 2013 Will update as and when I get more information.
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