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In the first place, what, in any case,
is a grievance – an articulated demand, based on political knowledge, an undirected complaint arising out of everyday experience, a vague feeling of unease or sense of deprivation? Second, and more important, __is it not the supreme and most insidious exercise of power to prevent people, to whatever degree, from having grievances by shaping their perceptions, cognitions and preferences in such a way
that they accept their role in the existing order of things, either because they can see or imagine no alternative to it, or because they see it as natural and unchangeable, or because they value
it as divinely ordained and beneficial?__
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
The root problem in most aimless writing is the failure to recognize the difference between a topic and an idea. The tip-off is that dread phrase “a look at.” Anytime a writer proposes “a look at” something, you can bet you’re in for a boring account that rambles through a topic with no sense of direction, no momentum, and no surprises.
Nothing was politically more important than the initiation of the educated Indian into the Englishman’s perception of the Indian masses. Both the descriptive and the diagnostic aspects of this perception were important. The descriptive aspect showed the masses as faceless millions, steeped in a poverty of their own making, superstitious and ignorant. The diagnostic aspect pointed out that education and moral upliftment alone could help the masses. Together, the two aspects endowed upon the educated native a deeply satisfying sense of intellectual and moral superiority over the illiterate masses, very similar to the superiority the colonizer felt towards Indian society as a whole.
Political Agenda of Education
Krishna Kumar
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