GREAT INDIA, GONE to DOGS

LORD MACAULAY`S ADDRESS to the BRITISH PARLIAMENT, 2 FEBRUARY, 1835

LORD MACAULAY`S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, 2 FEBRUARY, 1835 --
I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation
The quote is usually referenced as gMacaulay, British Parliament, 1835. In that year, Macaulay was actually in India, though other oft-quoted speeches by him on the same subject had indeed been delivered in Parliament, but in 1833.

Macaulayfs 1835 speech in British Parliament,

I do not think we would ever conquer this country (India), unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.
At that time British were rulers and they wanted to rule India at any cost, and they found out the way

unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage and they succeeded. They made us enemies of our own people, culture and states. Divide and rule was their policy they adapted.

But now they are gone, gone for Good, Still we have not learnt from our own mistakes, for the last 50 Plus years. unfortunatly we followed their foot steps.

Macaulayfs 1835 speech in British Parliament,