Historian Meenakshi Jain Reveals How British Dismantled Our Indigenous Education System — And We Let Them

Colonial Sabotage of Bharatiya Education System

Dear Reader,

We are all familiar with the Macaulay Minute of February 1835, which deemed the entire stock of Indian literature and scientific work as worthless, and prepared the grounds for the Anglicisation of Indian education, a process that continues 78 years after independence.

Macaulay was successful beyond his wildest dreams, as an impoverished population took to English education in order to gain access to some jobs and upward mobility. 

The British taught Indians to hate their culture and institutions, creating a class of self-loathing individuals who continue to be part of the elite even today. But long before Macaulay...