The Macaulay minute

The Macaulay minute
1 novembre 2014, 02:24


Often the enemies of our culture try to destroy facts in order to cheat us from using them against them. The english media plays a huge role in this. The idea is to delegitimize every fact that praizes the Hindu culture and prop up imaginary bogeymen to destroy Hinduism.



One such fact is called the Macaulay minute. Here is what it says:

An excerpt from the address by Lord Macaulay (the first law member of the Governor-General’s Council) to the British Parliament on February 2, 1835:



“I have travelled 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 don’t 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”.



Anyone who reads this can see why this is of great significance to Hindus. We are attempting from the time of the Islamic invasion, to recapture our true culture. The Islamic invaders did immense damage in the form of destruction of the institutions that supported Hindu culture. After them came the British who also went to great lengths to destroy the self-respect of Hindus by ridiculing openly everything that was not English. Large parts of our population have bought into this inferiority complex. We need to show the people how this was done. But they are not ready to believe that this was ever done. So deep is the brainwashing.



The Macaulay minute is a vital clue to such carefully planned destruction of Indian culture. This is no less important than the famous phrase 'The final solution' which was the plan hatched by the Nazis to rid Europe of Jews.



So this macaulay minute has been under great scrutiny by the forces arrayed against Hindus in India. These are composed of Muslim 'scholars', Christian clerics, Nehruvian-Marxist-"historians" who want to convince that this all a figment of the imagination in the Hindu zealot's mind. They say Macualay never said this and this is an "internet hoax".



So I took it upon myslef to seek the truth. After researching the archives of the British Parliament and not finding it, I wrote to the Archives officer asking why such a rumor then exists, if the records of the parliament don't show it. Here is my letter to him and his reply that explains this in detail. It clearly proves that Macauly DID say this and he DID try his damndest to destroy Indian, specifically HINDU, culture! Use this if you need to defend it.



From: b.k.vasan

Sent: 09 July 2010 00:55

To: HCInfo

Subject: Historical query



Subject: Historical query

Question: I keep coming across this quote from Lord Macaulay. Is there any way of confirming this from your records office please? the quote and dates given below:



An excerpt from the address by Lord Macaulay (the first law member of the Governor-General’s Council) to the British Parliament on February 2, 1835:



“I have travelled 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 don’t 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”.



Reply from the Archives Officer of the Archives of the British Parliament:

Dear B. K. Vasan,



Thank you for your email. The item that you have found is Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education. This was not an address to Parliament, and the Parliamentary Archives does not hold it, the reasons for this I give below.



Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), historian, essayist, and poet, was born on 25 October 1800. Macaulaywas elected for Calne on 15 February 1830 and took his seat three days later. He made his maiden speech on 5 April 1830 in support of a motion for the repeal of Jewish disabilities, but he made his name as an orator with the introduction of the whig government'sReform Bill in March 1831. He made five major speeches in support of the reform of parliament. Soon after the Reform Act was law, he sought a change of seat, and in the first elections for the reformed parliament he stood for Leeds. In 1833 the government'sCharter Act, presented to parliament by Grant, created a new supreme council for India, with a fourth post for a ‘law member’. It was offered (probably not without some lobbying on his part) to Macaulay. In early March 1834 Macaulay resigned his seat, and on the 15th he sailed for India. Macaulay left his mark on British administration, less in actual change than in memorable arguments on disputed issues. His most famous contribution, in which he joined Trevelyan, was to the controversy between orientalists and Anglicizers over the allocation of a sum of money to native students in higher education, one party favouring instruction in Sanskrit and Arabic, the other pressing for all instruction in English. Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education (2 February 1835) argued vigorously for the latter, on the grounds previously advanced by James Mill, that instruction in English would convey the findings of a more advanced culture and so the money would be more usefully spent. The Minute has become famous as a landmark in the dispute. The fact that Macaulay had resigned his seat means that his Minute is not a Parliamentary paper and therefore we do not hold it or a copy of it as a record in our collection.



However, Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education can be found on many websites using a search engine such as Google and entering the title and name of the author. I attach a link below to the website of the National Archives of India for your convenience.



http://nationalarchives.nic.in/



Yours sincerely,



Simon Gough

Archives Officer



Parliamentary Archives,

House of Lords,

Westminster,

London.

SW1A 0PW

United Kingdom.

Tel: +44(0)20 7219 3074

archives@parliament.uk

http://www.parliament.uk/archives

Online Catalogue: www.portcullis.parliament.uk



There are other quotes also from MAcaulay that substantiate his utter conviction that the Hindu culture was far superior to English culture and NEEDED to be destroyed for England to assert her colonial power in India:



Excerpt from story about release of Encyclopedia of Hinduism March 28 2010: (story in document titled 'Secularism springs from Hindu tolerance')

L K Advani said Kapil Kapoor, the Encyclopaedia's chief argued that "western culture internalised by the elite of our country because of the educational system thrust on us during British rule has made us ashamed and apologetic about our tradition, ceremonies, and customs, and specially about our languages, particularly Sanskrit."



He said Kapoor recounted a letter Thomas Macaulay had written to his father in 1836. "The effect of this (English) education on the Hindoos is prodigious. No Hindoo, who has received this 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 respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence."



Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)