"In a letter written to Lord Amherst, dated 11 December 1823, he praised the British as having ‘extended their benevolent care to this distant land, actuated by a desire to improve its inhabitants’ and obsequiously pleaded against the setting up of a Sanskrit university, which the British had been contemplating, on the grounds that the ‘Sanskrit system of education would be the best calculated to keep this country [India] in darkness’, and that a Sanskrit school ‘can only be expected to load the minds of youth with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions of little or no practicable use.... The pupils will there acquire what was known two thousand years ago, with the addition of vain and empty subtilties since.’"
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Ram Mohan Roy
Raja Ram Mohan Roy (22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was a founder of the Brahma Sabha the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in India.
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