The Union between East and West with the peaceful exchange of complementary3 Qualities evolved by the two civilisations in separation with the proper proportion of the maintenance of Rights and the performance of Duties accurately adjusted with the spirituality of India permeating and purifying the practicality of Britain and the common sense of Britain softening the acerbity of religious diff [...] The troubles in the Panjab are the results of 1919 and the estrangement of the Sikhs once the strongest support of the British Ritj is shown by the Gurudwara mOvement and the Akali campaikns. [...] How then was India educated up to the middle of the eighteenth century and how is she being educated nor; since the middle of the nineteenth ? The space beween these two dates is a period of decay in Education; the education of the masses received its death blow in 1816 with the destruction of the village self-government 130 that of the higher classes its misdirection in 1844 when English w [...] The English " man in the street " has never heard of Jambudvipa of Aryavarta the land of the Aryans of Bharatavarsha the land of the Bhitratas. [...] The assailant must also forget the glories of the University of Baghdad and the splendid work of the Moors who carried to Europa the torch of Science rlighted in Arabia and brought about the Renaissance of that Continent darkened since by the Roman Obedence the light had been trampled out that had shone in Greece in Egypt and along the borders of the Mediterrnean in southern Ita
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- India
- SARF Document ID
- sarf.145152
Segment | Pages | Author | Actions |
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Foreword
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i-iv | Annie Besant | view |
Introduction
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1-32 | Annie Besant | view |
Chapter I Education Past and Present
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33-58 | Annie Besant | view |
Chapter II The Poverty of the Masses
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59-92 | Annie Besant | view |
Chapter III Village Industries
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93-110 | Annie Besant | view |
Chapter IV The Remedy is Self-Rule
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111-141 | Annie Besant | view |
Chapter V Conclusion an Appeal to the Nation
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142-147 | Annie Besant | view |
Appendices
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148-159 | Annie Besant | view |
Index
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1-25 | Annie Besant | view |