The Lost Access to the Hindu Societal Past
Unlike Muslim regimes, the British consciously destroyed traditional Hindu institutions as a result of which today's Hindu society has lost access to its own societal past.
The Transmission of Sacred Education to Hindus: A Brief Journey Through the Eons
The first part of an essay series tracing the extraordinary educational tradition of spreading sacred knowledge throughout the length and breadth of Bharatavarsha for a period of at least three millennia.
How Macaulayite Hindus Destroyed the Pandit System of Scholarship
A Meeting held at the Bombay University Senate in 1913, among other things, set a blueprint of sorts to destroy the time-honoured system of scholarly education that produced Pandits of the highest order.
A Searing Portrait of Macaulay’s Hindu Children: Circa 1916
We begin a new series documenting the emergence of what was once known as Neo-Indians, a class of Western-educated Hindus.
The Golisri Sanskrit School of Calcutta: The Unmourned Victim of William Bentinck and Macaulay
The tragic story of the Golisri Sanskrit School of Calcutta which was obliterated forever by the educational policy of William Bentinck and Macaulay