"Dharampal in his The Beautiful Tree shows how India’s own education system, which was widespread, cut across ‘caste’ lines and, in some regions, resulted in near 100% literacy. In dismantling this education system and replacing it with one which produced clerks for its Empire, Britain made sure that the English-educated Indian elite were fed on their biased understanding of India. The literacy rate in India on the British watch declined to about 12%, and a near complete loss of memory of its previous condition ensued."
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Dharampal
Dharampal (19 February 1922 – 24 October 2006) was an Indian Gandhian thinker. He authored The Beautiful Tree (1983), Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century (1971) and Civil Disobedience and Indian Tradition (1971), among other seminal works, which have led to a radical reappraisal of conventional views of the cultural, scientific and technological achievements of Indian society at the eve of the British conquest.
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