Rammohan, Sanskrit, English Education and the Rescuer from the Worst Ever Education Disaster
Rammohan, Sanskrit, English Education and the Rescuer from the Worst Ever Education Disaster Allegations: Certain Social Media writers accuse Rammohan for “Killing Sanskrit”, “Adopting English Education”, “Macaulay being inspired by Rammohan” etc. All these accusations started after reading a letter that Rammohan wrote when the British allocated some budget for India’s education of which much of the funds were to be spent for establishing a Sanskrit College in Calcutta. Rammohan, in his letter, discouraged British to establish the Sanskrit College. He wrote that if British wanted Indians to be in “darkness” then they should establish the Sanskrit College. The ”wanna-be-scholars”(WBS) in social media and certain book writers never mention that in the same letter Rammohan requested that if the Britishers truly cared for Sanskrit then they should support existing Sanskrit Schools run by Hindu Pandits. The WBS never cared to explain or understand about Rammohan’s intention. Here some