The spread of western education
in India had altruistic motives
Firdaus Gandavia
In 1931, Mahatma Gandhi, in a speech at Chatham House declared that the British had done more harm than good to education in India and, consequently, India was left more illiterate than it was 50 or a 100 years ago. "Instead of taking hold of things as they were, (the British) began to root them out. They scratched the soil and began to look at the root, and left the root like that, and the beautiful tree perished.” Sir Philip Hartog, an eminent British educationist, who spent many years in India as an education advisor promptly wrote to Gandhi quoting......