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   Reject this anti-Hindu education and history   
      
   By J. G. Arora   
      
   Apart from de-Hinduising Hindus, Macaulayan education has   
   distorted Hindu religion and history. As per this   
   education, Hindus never resisted any foreign aggression,   
   and they do not have any glorious history. This education   
   suppresses how Hindus valiantly fought invaders for   
   several centuries, and defended their religion and   
   motherland.   
      
   Sanskrit which is the best, sweetest and divine language   
   (bhashasu mukhya madhura divya geervaan bharati) has been   
   driven out of Indian schools and colleges by Macaulay's   
   education. With the exception of Tirukkural which is in   
   Tamil, almost all ancient Hindu scriptures like Ved,   
   Upanishads, Ramayan, Mahabharat are in Sanskrit.   
      
   The UPA has succeeded in persuading more state   
   governments to accept the NCERT texts. A report on Monday   
   (January 5, 2009) said 12 more state governments have   
   accepted to teach NCERT texts in their schools.   
      
   For the last four weeks the Organiser is carrying a   
   series of articles on the NCERT textbooks prescribed for   
   students at the primary, secondary and higher secondary   
   schools. We have found these books written with a   
   peculiar mindset, to denationalise and deculturise the   
   young Indian. These books fail to make the children aware   
   of their true heritage. These books seem to distort even   
   India's freedom struggle, Mahatma Gandhi's role and try   
   to divide the society into different caste and class   
   segments.   
      
   Their idea is to convince the children that India as a   
   nation came to exist only after August 15, 1947.   
      
   We request the parents, teachers, students and scholars   
   to join this academic exercise to expose the shenanigans   
   behind promotion of these books in Indian schools. -   
   Editor   
      
   Though as per classical Indian tradition, "Sa vidya ya   
   vimuktaye", (that which liberates us is education),   
   modern Indian education binds one to Macaulay's anti-   
   Hindu world.   
      
   Missionary-oriented colonial education (commonly known as   
   Macaulay's education) was introduced in India in 1835 by   
   Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), a British   
   national, who as a member of the Supreme Council of India   
   was in India from 1834 to 1838. Macaulay's 'Minute on   
   Education' approved by Governor General William Bentinck   
   on March 7, 1835 downgraded Indian languages including   
   Sanskrit, and replaced them with English. Macaulayan   
   education has no place for Hindu scriptures, Hindu   
   heritage and Hindu history. It was introduced to de-   
   Hinduise Hindus; and to make them respect British rule   
   over India. Though education should generate self-   
   discovery, Macaulay's education generates self-alienation   
   among Hindus.   
      
   How India's cultural traditions were demolished by   
   Macaulay is clear from Macaulay's biographer GD   
   Trevelyan's observation, "A new India was born in 1835.   
   The very foundations of her ancient civilisation began to   
   rock and sway. Pillar after pillar in the edifice came   
   crashing down."   
      
   With the creation of Pakistan and Partition of India on   
   religious lines in 1947, truncated Bharat was expected to   
   re-assert its Hindu identity and liberate itself from   
   Macaulay's hold. But tragically in 1947, fake secularism   
   (which in actual practice means anti-Hinduism) was   
   foisted on Bharat because of which Macaulayan education   
   is still de-shaping Bharat's destiny long after the   
   British left Indian shores.   
      
   DE-HINDUISING HINDUS   
      
   Macaulay had contempt for India's native Hindu culture.   
   He wanted to de-Hinduise Hindus as is evident in his   
   following letter dated October 12, 1836 to his evangelist   
   father: "Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully;   
   we find it difficult to provide instruction to all. The   
   effect of this education on Hindus is prodigious. No   
   Hindu who has received an English education ever remains   
   sincerely attached to his religion. It is my firm belief   
   that if our plans of education are followed up, there   
   will not be a single idolater among the respected classes   
   30 years hence. And this will be effected without our   
   efforts to proselytise; I heartily rejoice in the   
   prospect."   
      
   And how he wanted to proceed is seen from the following   
   excerpt from his 1835 'Minute on Education':-   
      
   "We must at present do our best to form a class who may   
   be interpreters between us and the millions whom we   
   govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour,   
   but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in   
   intellect."   
      
   Since Macaulayan education has no place either for   
   Sanskrit or for Hindu scriptures like Ved, Ramayan,   
   Mahabharat, Tirukkural etc., it has de-Hinduised most of   
   the Hindus and transformed them into brown English clones   
   ignorant of Hindu religion, Hindu heritage and Hindu   
   history. De-Hinduised by Macaulayan education, and brain   
   washed by Macaulayan main stream media, most of Hindu   
   intellectuals, bureaucrats, journalists, MBAs, business   
   persons, doctors, lawyers, chartered accountants,   
   engineers, teachers and the rest know nothing about Hindu   
   religion; and do not know any Mantra of Ved or any Shloka   
   of Ramayan, Mahabharat or Tirukkural. Accordingly, most   
   of the Hindus are self-alienated and indifferent to   
   attacks being made on Hinduism by anti-Hindu forces.   
      
   DISTORTION OF HINDU RELIGION AND HISTORY   
      
   Apart from de-Hinduising Hindus, Macaulayan education has   
   distorted Hindu religion and history. As per this   
   education, Hindus never resisted any foreign aggression,   
   and they do not have any glorious history. This education   
   suppresses how Hindus valiantly fought invaders for   
   several centuries, and defended their religion and   
   motherland.   
      
   Hinduism is based on Ved which are all embracing and   
   permit no caste system or birth-based caste system. But   
   to divide Hindu society, missionaries proclaim that   
   Hindus follow a discriminatory birth-based caste system.   
   Macaulayan education and Marxist historians encourage   
   such anti-Hindu misconceptions.   
      
   In 1986, some attempts were made to modify Macaulay-ism.   
   And during 1999 to 2004, HRD Minister Dr Murli Manohar   
   Joshi tried his best to dislodge Macaulay's education.   
   But after regaining power in 2004, Congress-led   
   government has reinforced this education.   
      
   Though the Supreme Court approved 'National Curriculum   
   Framework (NCF) 2000' was already in place, after   
   regaining power in 2004, Congress-led government got NCF   
   2005 prepared. And though the National Policy on   
   Education, 1986 emphasised spiritual development, value   
   based education, Indology, Yoga and Sanskrit, NCF 2005   
   rejects all these sentiments.   
      
   Entire curriculum is guided by Karl Marx who had   
   declared, "Indian society has no history at all, at least   
   no known history".   
      
   GLORIFICATION OF INVADERS   
      
   In his book The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental   
      
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