It's sad that Indians dont know about India.
It's sad that the Britisher's dont know about the good works they did in India.
The latter is excusable, the former is not!
quoted Sudhir Deshpande.
I didn't quite understand what he meant by the second statement. I asked him: "What do you refer to when you say that the Britisher's don't know about their 'good' work in India?"
He explained:
It was Lord Curzon who formalized and revived the intensive work of archeology in India. Lord Curzon proposed the British Queen to grant some financial aid for carrying out archeological surveys in the country. On investigation of his proposal, the Queen offered some 80000 pounds for this work, which was extremely insufficient and impractical. Curzon suggested that this was not enough, and reflected of a poor geographical understanding and expanse of Indian territory on the Queen's part. Later on, realizing the significance of the work, the Queen proposed to send some people to help with the archaeological works in India. Curzon refused and said. "Me and my Indian brothers will handle this." Thus was the setting up of the Archaeological Survey of India. It was thereby only in 1915 some time that the historic sites of Mohenjo Daro were excavated! Later on , this wing gave boost to the development of new surveying equipments in India for matters of survey and measurement of topography and landform.
The Britishers experimented the first electrical train in India. India was like a laboratory for them! It was only later that they took this technology elsewhere including their own land. The research for Malaria was carried out first in India. It was from this fact that the combination of Jin and Tonic was produced. There was only one way that they could feed the Indian masses the malaria drug - by mixing it with alcohol. Later, this tonic became a drink.
The postal services were developed extensively in India to reach the deepest places in the country. This system helped them to establish a strong communication setup in the country. They developed roads and railways to further support this system.
Such was perhaps the entry of Modernism in India. The "unorganized" India was systematized through the rationally enlightened thoughts of Western world. India was made to think like the west. In fact, it was not even "India" then. The definition of India itself is encompassed in the Enlightened movement! In their study of the Orient; was it created. I can recall Ateya's Masters thesis on Modernity which spoke about roads as the 'development pathways' of the nation...
Lots of thoughts. And all of above is to be historically verified and facts may be grossly mis-stated. The writing primarily records my understanding of the passage of modernity in India.
more precise history of ASI here.
It's sad that the Britisher's dont know about the good works they did in India.
The latter is excusable, the former is not!
quoted Sudhir Deshpande.
I didn't quite understand what he meant by the second statement. I asked him: "What do you refer to when you say that the Britisher's don't know about their 'good' work in India?"
He explained:
It was Lord Curzon who formalized and revived the intensive work of archeology in India. Lord Curzon proposed the British Queen to grant some financial aid for carrying out archeological surveys in the country. On investigation of his proposal, the Queen offered some 80000 pounds for this work, which was extremely insufficient and impractical. Curzon suggested that this was not enough, and reflected of a poor geographical understanding and expanse of Indian territory on the Queen's part. Later on, realizing the significance of the work, the Queen proposed to send some people to help with the archaeological works in India. Curzon refused and said. "Me and my Indian brothers will handle this." Thus was the setting up of the Archaeological Survey of India. It was thereby only in 1915 some time that the historic sites of Mohenjo Daro were excavated! Later on , this wing gave boost to the development of new surveying equipments in India for matters of survey and measurement of topography and landform.
The Britishers experimented the first electrical train in India. India was like a laboratory for them! It was only later that they took this technology elsewhere including their own land. The research for Malaria was carried out first in India. It was from this fact that the combination of Jin and Tonic was produced. There was only one way that they could feed the Indian masses the malaria drug - by mixing it with alcohol. Later, this tonic became a drink.
The postal services were developed extensively in India to reach the deepest places in the country. This system helped them to establish a strong communication setup in the country. They developed roads and railways to further support this system.
Such was perhaps the entry of Modernism in India. The "unorganized" India was systematized through the rationally enlightened thoughts of Western world. India was made to think like the west. In fact, it was not even "India" then. The definition of India itself is encompassed in the Enlightened movement! In their study of the Orient; was it created. I can recall Ateya's Masters thesis on Modernity which spoke about roads as the 'development pathways' of the nation...
Lots of thoughts. And all of above is to be historically verified and facts may be grossly mis-stated. The writing primarily records my understanding of the passage of modernity in India.
more precise history of ASI here.
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