Question

6. ”The Orientalists saw themselves as the guardians of Indian culture, as well as its masters” Elaborate.​

Answer 1

Answer:

William Jones felt that the study Indian history, philosophy and law would not only help the British learn from Indian culture, but it would also help Indians rediscover their own heritage, and understand the lost glories of their past. This would also establish the British as guardians of Indian culture and gain total control

Explanation:

James Mill and Thomas Macaulay felt that knowledge of the East was full of errors and unscientific and that eastern literature was non-serious and light-hearted.

Macaulay thought that India was an uncivilised country that needed to be civilised.

They emphasised the need to teach the English language and felt that knowledge of English would allow Indians to read some of the finest literature the world had produced.

The knowledge of English would make them aware of the developments in Western science and philosophy.According to Gandhiji literacy in itself was not education. He felt that it was important to begin the child’s education by teaching it a useful handicraft and enabling it to produce from the moment it begins its training. He thought that every handicraft had to be taught not merely mechanically but scientifically, the child should know the why and the wherefore of every process.