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Distortion of Indian History, Part II

" History is the version  of past events that people have decided to agree upon", said Napoleon Bonaparte. It is a common account accepted by most of the people (either by compulsion or by conviction) In our country, the modern education system introduced by  Lord Macaulay had its own compulsions to serve the British cause. He said the following about India in 1835 in 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 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 los...