Here is a clip of Palki Sharma which will demolish Macaulay’s theories.
This Post sums up perfectly what should have been but wasn’t! We were just unwitting examples of Macaulay’s theories succeeding in implanting themselves into our psyche. We were Bishop Grandin’s examples of pupils ‘educated’ to be ashamed of our own heritage. Here is his quote, albeit said in the context of Canada: ‘We instil in them a pronounced distaste for the native life so that they will be humiliated when reminded of their origin. When they graduate from our institutions, the children have lost everything native except their blood.’
It is worth mentioning that the History teacher was Sisodia, allegedly of Rajput Royal heritage and a graduate of a US University. I have never ever regarded Royals who pledged loyalty to our British colonial masters as anything but imperial lackeys. How could a character like US educated Sisodia teach Indian history other than with a bias towards the British? Sisodia taught an optional subject and his results were by far the worst of the lot. It is little wonder that in the 4 years I was in Senior School, absolutely nobody chose Indian history as the optional subject as making such a choice was a sure fire way to failure.
Mention is made of Macaulay in the course of the video. Perhaps mention should have been made of Trevelyan, a British administrator who said: Educated in the same way, interested in the same objects, engaged in the same pursuits with ourselves, they become more English than Hindu… The young men brought up in our seminaries, turn with contempt from the barbarous despotisms under which their ancestors groaned… Instead of regarding us with dislike, they court our society, … the summit of their ambition is, to resemble us.
Trevelyan was married to Macaulay’s sister Hannah More Macaulay.