The Facts are slightly different. Over 90% of the indian population were illiterate back then. All the VedaShalas, the traditional Vedic Schools were open only to Brahmins and other elite classes.
This is because the Brahmin would never sit with a Shudra and teach him the language.
Sanskrit was not in the day-to-day use in India by the bulk of the indian population who had other mother-tongues.
The British
introduction of English into indian schools served as a Uniting force to all indians who has about 35 spoken languages and could easily communicate with each other with English. Even Mahatma Gandhi used English to communicate with other freedom-fighters all over india.
This is exactly why, Sri. Aurobindo stated, "Nature tried everything she could to unite the whold of India, but couldn't, So Nature finally resorted to foreign invasions to unite the whole of India".
bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:31:09 -0000
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Sanskrit
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Sanskrit
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Sanskrit and Macaulayan education
"Literally meaning "refined and sanctified", and priding itself as
cultured, Sanskrit is acclaimed as the best, sweetest and divine
language (bhashasu mukhya madhura divya geervaan bharati). Sanskrit is the divine language revealed through the sages (Sanskritam naam
daivi vaak anavyakhyata maharshibhihi). But though excepting
Tirukkural which is in Tamil, almost all Hindu scriptures like Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana and Mahabharata are written in Sanskrit, Sanskrit has been driven out of Indian schools and colleges by Macaulay's education introduced in India in 1835.
Macaulayan education downgraded Indian languages including Sanskrit and replaced them with English. This education was introduced to de-Hinduize Hindus as is evident in Macaulay's 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 proselytize; I heartily rejoice in the prospect."
De-Hinduized by Macaulayan education, and brain washed by Macaulayan media, most of Hindu intellectuals, MBAs, business persons, doctors, lawyers, chartered accountants, engineers, teachers and the rest are self-alienated and do not know Sanskrit, and do not know much about Hindu religion or heritage, or about Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata or Tirukkural.
India was expected to discard Macaulayism after the British left in
1947. On September 10, 1949, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar even sponsored an
amendment making Sanskrit as the official language of India. But the
said amendment was defeated in the Constituent Assembly. However,
Sanskrit was included in the Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution.
But shockingly, Macaulay's missionary-oriented colonial education
and neglect of Sanskrit is still gripping Independent India. After
banishing Sanskrit from Indian schools and colleges, Macaulayists
call Sanskrit 'the dead language'.
Sanskrit and Macaulayan education
"Literally meaning "refined and sanctified", and priding itself as
cultured, Sanskrit is acclaimed as the best, sweetest and divine
language (bhashasu mukhya madhura divya geervaan bharati). Sanskrit is the divine language revealed through the sages (Sanskritam naam
daivi vaak anavyakhyata maharshibhihi). But though excepting
Tirukkural which is in Tamil, almost all Hindu scriptures like Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana and Mahabharata are written in Sanskrit, Sanskrit has been driven out of Indian schools and colleges by Macaulay's education introduced in India in 1835.
Macaulayan education downgraded Indian languages including Sanskrit and replaced them with English. This education was introduced to de-Hinduize Hindus as is evident in Macaulay's 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 proselytize; I heartily rejoice in the prospect."
De-Hinduized by Macaulayan education, and brain washed by Macaulayan media, most of Hindu intellectuals, MBAs, business persons, doctors, lawyers, chartered accountants, engineers, teachers and the rest are self-alienated and do not know Sanskrit, and do not know much about Hindu religion or heritage, or about Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata or Tirukkural.
India was expected to discard Macaulayism after the British left in
1947. On September 10, 1949, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar even sponsored an
amendment making Sanskrit as the official language of India. But the
said amendment was defeated in the Constituent Assembly. However,
Sanskrit was included in the Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution.
But shockingly, Macaulay's missionary-oriented colonial education
and neglect of Sanskrit is still gripping Independent India. After
banishing Sanskrit from Indian schools and colleges, Macaulayists
call Sanskrit 'the dead language'.
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