Summary
India has been invaded several times over past 1000 years and every invaders has their own impact on this great Indian society. But I found my answer in Macaulay's letter to his Father on 12 October 1836. This was the time when British has just introduced English education in India and they decided the syllabus and content being fed to Indians through English education.
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I have always wondered why some English educated Hindus have so much hatred for their own religion. These people call everything related to Hindus fiction even though scientific evidences suggest otherwise.
India has been invaded several times over past 1000 years and every invaders has their own impact on this great Indian society. But I found my answer in Macaulay's letter to his Father on 12 October 1836. This was the time when British has just introduced English education in India and they decided the syllabus and content being fed to Indians through English education.
Here is the letter
To Zachary Macaulay, 12 October 1836
My dear Father,
....In a few months, I hope indeed in a few weeks, we shall send up the penal code to government. We have got rid of the punishment of death except in cases of aggravated treason and wilful murder. We shall also get rid indirectly of everything that can properly be called slavery in India. There will remain civil claims on particular people for particular services, which claims may be enforced by civil action. But no person will be entitled, on the plea of being the master of another, to do anything to that other which it would be an offence to do to a freeman.
Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully. We find it difficult, indeed at some places impossible, to provide instruction for all who want it. At the single town of Hoogley fourteen hundred boys are learning English. The effect of this education on the Hindoos is prodigious. No Hindoo who has received an English education ever continues to be sincerely attached to his religion. Some continue to profess it as a matter of policy. But many profess themselves pure Deists, and some embrace Christianity. The case with Mahometans is very different. The best-educated Mahometan often continues to be a Mahometan still. The reason is plain. The Hindoo religion is so extravagantly absurd that it is impossible to teach a boy astronomy, geography, natural history, without completely destroying the hold which that religion has on his mind. But the Mahometan religion belongs to a better family. It has very much in common with Christianity; and even where it is most absurd, it is reasonable when compared with Hindooism. It is my firm belief that, if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence. And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytise, without the smallest interference with religious liberty, merely by the natural operation of knowledge and reglection. I heartily rejoice in this prospect....
The letter is self explainatory why theories like caste-system, Aryan Migration Theory, Aryan Invasion Theory, Aryans-Dravidians were fed to Indians and it is very sad that these things have not changed even now due to political ambitions of some people.
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