Delivering the Sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture in Delhi on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on people to take a pledge to end, over the next 10 years, Thomas Macaulay’s influence, which he said had “colonised” Indian minds for almost two centuries. The PM’s statements expressed a core concern of the Sangh and were in line with its position on indigenising education and “decolonising the Indian mind”.

Macaulay’s objective, Modi said, was to create Indians who “are Indians by appearance but British at heart.” The country, he added, “paid a heavy price” for this as the belief that the Western or foreign was superior took deep root. “The feeling of pride in what was ours gradually diminished. We started looking toward foreign countries for innovation. This mentality led to a trend in

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