How Britishers destroyed India's Primary Education
On 10 Mar 1826 Sir Thomas Munro, the Governor of Madras Presidency submitted a detailed Census and a survey Report to the British government. The report was a 'breaking news' not only to the British government in India even in England it surprised the top brass. What was in that report that revealed certain unknown facts about India to the world ? The geographical dimensions of Madras Presidency was from Ganjam district of Orissa and to the entire South India. The population was 1,28,50,941. There were 12,498 primary schools. This is inspite of the fact that the collector of Mangalore did not send a report due to some reasons, and many hilly areas were not covered. As per the report on an average there was one primary school for one thousand population. Whereas England had a dismal average of primary education record. In fact Britain didn't have an education policy then. Another interesting fact that even Indians we're not aware of was that only 24% , of...