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Identifier: indiafuture00archuoft Title: India and the future Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Archer, William, 1856-1924 Subjects: Civilization, Indian (East Indian) Publisher: London, Hutchinson Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN


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Text Appearing Before Image: teach false history, false astronomy, falsemedicine, because we find them in company with false religion. There are faults of excess and faults of emphasis in thispronouncement ; but it is absurd to talk of the mischiefwrought by Macaulays blighting rhetoric. Such lan-guage can be held only by those who think that Englandought to have perpetuated her empire in India by keepingthe people entirely ignorant of Western political ideas.Even supposing that this would have been desirable (whichI do not believe) it would certainly have been impossible.Not in India alone, but all the world over, the day of thering-fence is for ever past. We might have hindered thepercolation of ideas ; we could not have prevented it.For the material development of the country, by means ofthe railroad and the telegraph, a lingua-franca was indis-pensable ; and if some other language than English (sayHindustani) had been chosen for the purpose, Westernbooks would have been translated into that language, and 242

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