Something to chew on... The Paaji's editorial comments below... 

WHY THE BRITISH GAVE THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT THE WESTERN EDUCATION

Excerpts from Lord Macaulay's address to the British parliament on 2 February, 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 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."

I do not think there is a more telling quote as that. The legacy of subjugation of the Indian people have continued long past the British withdrawal from India. Much like the rest of the colonized world, the British left India a tattered, dependent state. The colonial British economic system became like heroin to the subcontinent.  This abject dependency was something we couldn't release ourselves from. Take a telescopic peek into the crosshatches of our Indian culture, society and economy and you can see the scars of the lashings that the British colonial system has left on our great region.

The artificial boundaries the British created, and the angst that these political boundaries created, has caused generations of bloodletting to accumulate all over the land. This blood, shed by our own bretheren, seeps into the lifeblood of our culture. No longer do we have a common enemy- we have turned the ire of our scorn back to ourselves. In short, we have learned to hate ourselves and each other. We have become factioned and fractionalized. We despise our brother, and war with our neighobor. Hindu and Muslim, once abash in peaceful coexistance cannot share the same borders. And we collectively suffer because of it.