PARAMPARA

It would not just be loss of twenty years worth of knowledge but all the knowledge collected over ten thousand years could be lost.

And such a loss could not be made up for in the next twenty years. Several decades will take to make up the gap, because of the discontinuity created in the accumula- tion of the knowledge.

In this way, those two hundred years of British dominance in India created a great gap.

Most of its links with the ancient knowledge and wisdom were broken, and it had to establish an identity with a totally new and alien civilization with which its older civilization had no relationship.

Indians think that theirs is a very old civilization. However, they are mistaken, they are only two hundred years old.

The British in some sense are now far older a community than Indians. The education imparted by Maculey system has controlled many of our minds.

That which the West chose to give India is its knowledge. Whatever India knew before 200 years ago was lost in one stroke.

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