British Strategy to conquer India (1835)

Some two months ago, Azaadi Express Train (a special exhibition train to commemorate the occasion of 150 years of first freedom struggle of India) passed through my city. I visited it, specially to show it to my daughter. It was a nice display of events. This poster grabbed my attention instantly.

Sorry for the flash effect. Here is the complete text:

Strategy outlined to the British Parliament

for Conquering India

on February 02, 1835

"I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and ,therefore, I propose that we replace the old and ancient education system, her culture, because if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation."

- Lord Macaulay

Quite thinkable. Isn't it?

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Few thumbnails from ACKs.