Write a note on Education System Prevailing
in India before British.
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Explanation:
I find this question interesting, because according to my little knowledge of the subject, we British were worse educated than the Indians, when we invaded their country. Education in India deteriorated under British rule. India was also more civilised. It is much easier to invade and take over a civilised country, than one that is still culturally primitive, and actively hostile to what is not in their interests. Ignorant illiterate people respond quickly to hostile acts against them. Literate civilised people are less likely to be so hostile, because the regimes operating at the time were probably not all that friendly to the interests of the Indian people.
What I am saying is that it is easier to con somebody who is well educated and sophisticated, than somebody who is able to see the con for what it is. My assertion runs counter to what most people believe. Most people think that the more civilised a people are, the more likely they are to resist takeover of their civilisation. However, education does include all kinds of inhibitions over people seeing things as they are, and convincing them to see things as the elite power structure of the country wishes them to see. You have only to look at the British at the present time, in regard to the takeover by the European Union, to see how badly educated the British are in regard to their new colonial status, within this new empire.
So I do agree that civilised ways did eventually prevails in Britain, and we started to acquire a conscience in the matter of colonial rule. Edmund Burke was one famous 18th century statesman, who was at the forefront of starting a movement, which grew in the 19th century, to bring about educational reforms that resulted in India eventually being sufficiently educated again (in the British image) to gain self rule. These educational reforms were in line with with British ones, and I shall only mention the Forster Act of the 1870s to give you some idea of the time line. No doubt India had reforms about the same time.
Re-educating India would have been an unpopular measure, with those who only wished to exploit the continent for its own purposes. Those who supported the idea would have been equally unpopular, and reading and studying the life of Winston Churchill during the thirties should give some idea of the debates of the time. All I remember of this time is how people in Britain did not actually regard Indians as being all that worthy of self rule. They used all kinds of terms of abuse, and the general public was not all that educated about it. Even today, Indians coming to Britain will meet people of my generation that have not matured into accepting Indians as equal. They are still thought of as people worthy of being ruled by the British. The colonial period has done more harm to the British soul than it ever did to the Indian spirit, the same we see in Palestine today, with this Jewish Zionist mafia treating the indigenous population as wild indians.
I think I have explored enough of my ignorance of this subject for today, and hope the gaps in my knowledge might suggest research areas for young Indians today. What I would like to repeat though is India was much better educated than Britain in the 16th and 17th and 18th centuries.