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How Macaulay and William Bentinck Heartlessly Destroyed the Glorious Golisri Sanskrit College

How Macaulay and William Bentinck Heartlessly Destroyed the Glorious Golisri Sanskrit College

The tragic story of the Golisri Sanskrit School of Calcutta which was obliterated forever by the educational policy of William Bentinck and Macaulay

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Mar 31, 2022
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The Golisri Sanskrit School of Calcutta: The Unmourned Victim of William Bentinck and Macaulay

THOMAS BABBINGTON MACAULAY’S comprehensive vandalism of the unbroken educational heritage of India wouldn’t have been so phenomenally successful but for the unstinted official support he got from William Bentinck, then the Governor General of British-occupied India. By any standard, Bentinck remains a gold-standard robber baron of an epic scale. Bentinc…

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