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While rejecting English education and British rule, nationalist commentators seldom failed to express some satisfaction over the fact that British rule and its education system had provided a means for Indians to come in touch with a materially advanced culture. The assumption underlying this satisfaction was that the material advancement of Europe, as represented by the English in India, was based on Europe’s scientific knowledge. This assumption seems to have remained untainted by the realization which was widely shared that England was responsible for plundering India’s wealth.
Political Agenda of Education
Krishna Kumar
These firms were in fact channeling a widespread dogma: of the market as the place for world-changing and of market types as ideal world-changers.
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
Development will only ever make sense if we begin to change the rules that produce poverty in the first place – if we begin to dismantle the architecture of upward redistribution that defines the world system.
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