Interpretation Of Dreams

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Public Education

 The eminent historians are most dismissive of the suggestion that there were public arrangements for school education in India. Instead of giving any data, they merely assert, on the authority of their imputed ‘eminence’, that there were no schools or colleges in India and that education was limited to upper castes. However, there is just too much of evidence available about a widespread system of education in India in the various surveys that the British undertook during the eighteenth century. The evidence of these surveys cannot be dismissed by merely the shake of an eminent head. The details of the surveys have been painstakingly compiled and analysed in Dharampal: The Beautiful Tree, Biblia Impex, Delhi 1983.Â

Those who are convinced that India could not have been a functioning society before the arrival of the British in India cannot be easily disabused of their prejudice. But, the readers of the Hindu deserve to know the evidence on the other side also. It is with this intent that we have collated the above brief summary of evidence.Â

Dr. J. K. Bajaj and Dr. M. D. Srinivas

Centre for Policy Studies

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Those who are convinced that India could not have been a functioning society before the arrival of the British in India cannot be easily disabused of their prejudice.

All depends on what 'functioning society' means. I don't and neither does the author say that India was not a 'functioning society' before the British arrived. This is very old white-man's burden propaganda

The BJP manifesto goes back much further to the time of megasthenes visit around 300BC.

I think its without a question by the time the Brits arrived, that India would have been a 'functioning society'.