Lord Macaulay

“I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a thief.  Such wealth I have seen in this Country, such high moral values, people of such calibre; that I do not think we would even conquer this Country, unless we break the very backbone of this Nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is Foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated Nation”

- Lord Macaulay in his speech of

February 2, 1835, British Parliament