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DOPTION OF WESTERN CULTURE H SUNDERMIND THE INDI N V LUE SYSTEM

Bharatvarsha as it is called or India,

a unique country with twodifferent names, is the home toone of the oldest culture systemand religion of the world.

Sanathana Dharma as it is calledhas been renamed as Hindu byMuslim invaders post 8 th century.

Bharatvarsha has been named afterKing Bharata, the son of famousShakuntla and King Dushyanta.Sone ki Chidiya or Golden Bird a

heritage name India earned due to

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prosperity of its people, attractedMuslim Invaders from central Asia,who looted this country as many as18 times in one case. The toleranceof Indian and Sanathana Dharma

and capability to absorb any newsystem of faith has always changedthe very nature of Bharata. Thiscountry has wholehearted accepted

all invaders and their faith withoutprejudice. Of course we can alsoattribute continuous invasion fromwest and central Asia due to poor

military might and lack of unity insmall rules spread over across thisnation. After Great Asoka whorelinquished his throne afteraccepting Buddhisms . Our country

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suffered badly and nation as suchlost the very feeling of nationalism.

Of course Muslims invaders initiallywere only interested in loot but in14 th century onwards with Ghulam

Vansh and further with Mughalthey had vision to overrun all ofthe India. However, till about 19 th century Muslim merged well with

ethnic India due to large-scaleconversion undertook by All MughalEmperors more so by Aurangzeb.

Damage to India by Muslim Rulers

They could rule over Indians due toinherent weakness of rulers andtheir motive was to spread their

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faith either by force and theyadopted the system of systematicdestruction of temples, educationsystem and mass building ofMosques in place of temples. Worst

damage done to Indian values waseducation system and completedestruction of great university likeNalanda and

Taxila. I need not remind any oneof us here the loot of Somanath bythese foreign invaders. Muslim onlybuild Mosques and Mazaars andTombs like Tajmahal, Sikandra,Humaayun and Safdarjung etc.These rules never took any interestin development of education and

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science in this country. Even thoughat the time of Shaahjahan EastIndia Company has started spreadingits net across India post renaissancein the Europe.

However, even after 800 years ofrule by Muslim, they got mixedwith Indian Culture anddifferentiation was difficult till Indiagot independence.

British and others Europeansstarted coming to India afterlistening to glory and prosperity ofits people, rulers and natural rawmaterial available in this country.

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Indian as such should be thankful toBritish for giving one of the biggestRail, Road and Telephone networkin this country. However, one ofworst agenda apart from loot of

natural resources of Indian was toundertake mass conversion of itspeople to Christian faith. Indianwoke up to their heinous plan of

conversion very late by then wholeof east India, Kerala, and CentralIndian people became victim ofmissionaries who changed the very

faith of the people in garb ofservice, and help by giving freemoney and job. This has led tomajor demographic changes in Indian

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Subcontinent more so in East ofIndia.

The objective of British was toensure export of max resource ofIndian to European market atcheapest possible rate; they had nochoice but to built and full proofroad and rail network. Along withthis they had no choice but tointroduce latest technology andscience in India without which theycould not have managed theirgrowing business needs.

In order to manage large forces andalso to look after their business,

British also started a education

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system, to create clerks andtradesman. The system ofeducation was given to Indian byLord Macaulay, whose father was amajor missionary worker and whose

sole aim was to convert whole ofIndia to Christianity. Lord Macaulayhas written a letter to his fatherpost introduction of English

education in India, that Fatheryou need not worry about theconversion of Indians faith toChristianity; because with

introduction of English language thisobjective has been achievedautomatically. Any one who isstudying of following English isautomatically forgetting about their

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rich culture heritage and stopsidentifying them selves with theirvery people and behaves likeEnglishman.

They were successful in that

however, the biggest contributioncame from Brits from their successin bringing whole of India under oneRule. Thus the birth of Indian

Nationalism. British helped Indiansin resurrection of lostnationalism.

Post Independent in India, Englisheducation became one of majorneeds of the day to comprehendthe growth of Science and

Technology in Europe and America.

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Thus there was a race for En

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; glish education, it was in a waygood for this country, today butsince post independence we did notrevise the education system of LordMacaulay as per the needs ofIndependent India, and continuedwith it till few decades back. TodayIndian are major players in scienceand Technology in Silicon Valley of

America and elsewhere in Europe,

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but this system has not helpedIndian much as far as growth ofIndian as hub of Science andTechnology is concerned. Even after67 yrs of independence we are still

importing weapons and technologyfrom insignificant country like Israeland South Africa and Italy etc.Thought we are the country of max

education of science and technologyand youngest population in theworld to take over the challenges,however adoption of westerns

culture has converted Indian into acountry of service providers. Wehave failed as Industrial hub of theworld even thought we have one of

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the biggest natural resources andmanpower under our umbrella.

English language has helped us toprogress in IT revolution andIndustrial Growth across the globe,but it has come at exuberant cost.We have lost touch with our valuesystem. We have lost touch withour culture, language and veryessence of spiritual superiority. Toquote the world of noble laureateof late 70s, India is a country ofgreat culture, people, values andwealth. This is a country withrichest heritage all over the world

but Indian in long run will not

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progress because the Indians are notproud of their heritage andculture.

I must bring it to the knowledge ofall my friends that in world war Iand II and during their renaissance,most of American and Europeansscientist has one of the Indians astheir guru whom they had totalfaith this includes Einstein and Bhoretc. They had one way or otherhad read thorough some of majorIndian Scriptures while they werebusy in new invention.

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Today most of Indian having learnedEnglish as language or afteradopting western Culture, have lostthe very Indian Joint familyconcept, lost touch with their own

language and values of family. As aresult they are ignoring their oldparents, not paid any attention tothe growth of very basic units of

India called Villages.

Adoption of western culture hasharmed the Indian values becausepeople some where down the lineIndian Govt has failed to createsystem of governance as per the

need of Independent India, We are

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till following the code o conduct,Indian Panel Code and most of rulesin this country which were madeduring the time of English Rule.