Sun 21 Feb 2010
India in 1835
Posted by Prakash under India
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LORD MACAULAY’S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, 2 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 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 culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.
This not only tells you what India was in 1835 but how British managed to rule over India.
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Please do not propagate such false information. Please refer to the original text of the speech here.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_minute_education_1835.html
It is a hoax quote. There is apparently no reliable reference for it other than the Hindu nationalist media (BJP et al):
http://ut7.in/blog/2009/04/04/bjp-manifesto-the-bogus-macaulay-quote-refuses-to-die/
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/hinduism/macaulay.html
I read all of Mein Kampf, and I don’t think there was a paragraph in that book as disgusting as that quote from Lord Macaulay.
Hmmm … However, perhaps he didn’t actually make those statements.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=296771