Dear friends,
India is a country with diverse culture and languages besides the different religions of contradicting faiths. Since long back our country was attracted by several communities of far away countries. They came, stayed for awhile and left thereafter like Alexander the Great, an unbeatable Greek Hero who never pressed for accepting their own culture, languages, faiths etc. upon the defeated nations.
India is a country with diverse culture and languages besides the different religions of contradicting faiths. Since long back our country was attracted by several communities of far away countries. They came, stayed for awhile and left thereafter like Alexander the Great, an unbeatable Greek Hero who never pressed for accepting their own culture, languages, faiths etc. upon the defeated nations.
Invaders came for looting our country. Some of them were lost even as absorbed within our cultures. A few among us were lost too by the assimilation with them.
Thus an Indian language Urdu evolved but now dying fast along with Sanskrit. I think, except English all other Indian languages i.e., Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam etc. are destined to the same fate like Urdu and Sanskrit as those cannot be accessed easily on the computer.
Ever had developed countries like Russia, Germany, France, Japan, China etc. depended on a language which they disown? But the Indians have no choice but to express their thoughts and ideas always in the single language which was forced upon them by the British.The contention of this writing is not to project the British with a bad image as they had obstructed or abused Indian cultures, languages, religions etc. rather should be praised as they had polished those abstract things.None other than British made available of grammar books in different regional languages authored by their literates. They had stopped certain evils of the societies like burning of young widows, sacrificing human being before idols of Gods, etc. All these would happened in the name of religious rituals. Cleansing of such incidents in the society was possible only after their success to introduce the new education system by Lord McCauley, the Commissioner.
These were in six stages. Primary, Secondary, Entrance, Intermediate, Graduate and Post Graduate.
The interest for acquiring such education was created by the earning assurances. Almost everybody would have been absorbed in the Britishers' created services acquiring such educations. Additionally they would be highly respected in the society as a learned people. A large number of such people tried for maintaining the regional old values and Indian literature's dependent cultures minus the evils. Such attempts didn't sustained. Provision for unlimited permanent employment for the masses was not there.
On observation of the futility of acquiring higher education in other systems except those chosen by the British, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the renowned society reformer, preferred English system of education for the girls. Although Raja Rammohan was taught Sanskrit language, literature and Vedanta by the renowned Erudites Nandakumar Vidyalankar and Hariharananda Tirthaswami and he also studied Arabic and Pharisee from the Moulavis in Patna. Still he avoided the old systems of education. Raja Rammohan Roy translated 'Kenopanishad, Kathopanishad, Ishopanishad, Mandukyopanishad' etc. in to Bengali.
For the first time in the year 1822 started English medium 'Anglo Hindu School'.
In the year 1830 at Delhi the Emperor Akbar (2nd) honored him with 'Raja' Title.
He died in the year 1833.
Descending started for the Indian languages, cultures and so on. But British never did these.
Are those Upanishads, mentioned above, have no value in our live today? Really! How many Indian literates have studied these are unmentionable.
But using the English letters which are easy for typing on computer, we the Indians can notify to the world regarding the heritage of our language, literature, religions, philosophy, etc. in respective original forms .
Readers' opinions expected .
Barid Baran
On observation of the futility of acquiring higher education in other systems except those chosen by the British, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the renowned society reformer, preferred English system of education for the girls. Although Raja Rammohan was taught Sanskrit language, literature and Vedanta by the renowned Erudites Nandakumar Vidyalankar and Hariharananda Tirthaswami and he also studied Arabic and Pharisee from the Moulavis in Patna. Still he avoided the old systems of education. Raja Rammohan Roy translated 'Kenopanishad, Kathopanishad, Ishopanishad, Mandukyopanishad' etc. in to Bengali.
For the first time in the year 1822 started English medium 'Anglo Hindu School'.
In the year 1830 at Delhi the Emperor Akbar (2nd) honored him with 'Raja' Title.
He died in the year 1833.
Descending started for the Indian languages, cultures and so on. But British never did these.
Are those Upanishads, mentioned above, have no value in our live today? Really! How many Indian literates have studied these are unmentionable.
But using the English letters which are easy for typing on computer, we the Indians can notify to the world regarding the heritage of our language, literature, religions, philosophy, etc. in respective original forms .
Readers' opinions expected .
Barid Baran
