[Ilugc] [Fwd: BTW, I am curious to know what Lord McCauley [Lord Macaulay?] spoke in,the British Parliament]

[Ramanraj K]

Goodness!  Please read this[1]

Dileep, could you please give the source links?

Once we understand history and philosophy behind an action, then we can
easily understand the implementation in a better way.  BTW, I had only
read about Macaulay's well known speech when English was introduced as a
medium of intruction in India[2]:

"The destinies of our Indian Empire are covered with thick darkness....
   It may be that the public mind of India may expand under our system
till it has outgrown that system; that by good government we may educate
our subjects into a capacity for better government; that having become
instructed in European knowledge they may, in some future age, demand
European institutions.  Whether such a day will ever come, I know not.
But never will I attempt to avert or retard it.  Whenever, it comes, it
will be the proudest day in English history."

We should deal with all this history, the way Charles Babbage dealt with
the fake chess automaton - use it to build something better.  We are
free now, and on our own.

-Ramanraj.

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: BTW, I am curious to know what Lord McCauley [Lord Macaulay?]
spoke in,the British Parliament
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:34:16 +0530
From: Dileep M. Kumar <kumarayil at eth.net>
To: Ramanraj K <ramanraj at md4.vsnl.net.in>


dear Ramanraj, read this. it has nothing related to FS :-)


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Time to  Read this
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:14:22 +0530
From: KSJayakumar at scmmicro.co.in


Lord McCauley in his speech of Feb 2,1835, British Parliament


"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 caliber, 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".


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[2] Cited from Constitution of India, HM Seervai.  The very learned
author carefully describes 26th August, 1950, when India gave itself a
new constitution, as the proudest day of English history.