The following words are supposed to be by Lord Macualay who came to India from England to send a report on how to conquer India. I am not sure if these are his own words or created by some Indian political brains. However, it really makes me feel how royal Indian culture was and gives me some hope that we can get this back some day.
"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."
-lord macaulay
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