India decolonizing education model

Subject : History

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Stating that India is now “getting out of the Macaulay model of education and decolonising” it, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday said while India’s foundation lies in the Vedic era, “our goal should remain to become a global benchmark”.

Macaulay’s Minute of Education

Lord Macaulay arrived in India on June 10, 1834, as a law member of the Governor General’s Executive Council and was appointed President of the Committee of Public Instruction.
In 1835, he was tasked with settling a dispute between orientalists and Anglicists.
He presented his famous minutes to the council in February 1835, which Lord Bentik approved, and a resolution was passed in March 1835.

The following points were emphasized by him:

The main goal of the British government should be to promote European literature and science among Indians, and that “all funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best spent on English education alone.”
All existing professors and students at all institutions under the committee’s supervision shall continue to receive stipends, but no stipend shall be given to any students who may subsequently enter any of these institutions.
No funds from the government were to be spent on the printing of oriental works.
All funds available to the government would be spent in the future on imparting knowledge of English literature and science to Indians.