India/western Sociology

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[url="http://http://folks.co.in/2010/01/decolonizing-education/"]Decolonizing Education[/url]

The British have left but this spiritually emasculated creature of colonial rule is still with us. They are brought up to disregard everything Indian – especially Hindu – but uncritically accept anything coming from the West – like Marxism. With the end of European Imperialism, Marxism became the shelter of these intellectuals. Surveying the scene a century and half later, Ram Swarup commented on the continued existence of this anachronistic state of mind:



“… the Euro-Colonial-Missionary forces triumphed, represented by soldier-scholars like J.S. Mill, Hegel, Macaulay, Mars nd many others. They were thoroughly Eurocentric and they looked at India and other countries of the East with contempt and condescension. … They taught several generations of Indians how and what to think of themselves. They even borrowed the West’s contempt for their own people. Traditional India, during its recovery and reaffirmation, finds itself most fiercely opposed by these elite forces at home. …