When will India get intellectual freedom from the west?

Question

edjdonnel, I am talking about the brainwashing of the Indians for last 150 years by the British, and today by USA.

Xamanator, surely Macaulay rules, and so his brainwashing. I don't mind your hypocrisy, you are following his line. But if you really want to know what India was once (which I am asking Indians to resurrect), you may want to read Vedas, Upanishadas, etc written at the time when Macaulay's ancestor's were living in caves.

Answer 1

Look at the Romans, Egyptians and many other cultures that were prominent centuries ago. Good or bad, they still influence western culture and the way we think.

Answer 2

India already has that freedom, if you only look. Try not to get stuck where you've been, or where you thought you'd find the answer. Keep looking. The answer may be as close as the breath on the back of your neck, or the tickle on your hackles, or the itch between your scapula, that itch on your arm where the poison sap rubbed off the leaves or hairs of vine.

The answer may lie forgotten in some temple, or discarded in an alley in Mumbai or Bombay, in Delhi or Assam, in Kashmir or Punjab. Might the answer lie under some overturned boat or canoe on a beach by the sea, or the strand of some holy river?

Answer 3

The only place you can FIND intellectual freedom is in Western culture. What's more, it's the only culture that is still advancing - all the others are declining or marking time.
India has already made great contributions to it. Long may they continue.
So intellectual freedom is doing the vedas eh? I don't think so! It's being able to appreciate the vedas, the glories of modern Indian writing, and those of other cultures too.
(Oh, and you'd like to read the vedas in manuscript form, would you, and not in printed versions using scholarship pioneered by British-sponsored editions?) You want the intellectual freedom to have to go to ayurveda when you are ill, eh? Macaulay rules!

Answer 4

Since India has many languages and dialects, English will continue to serve as a unifying language for many years to come--a practical necessity that will also enable Indians to easily understand British and American English. Indeed, educated Indians from electrical engineers to telemarketers are working in India as well as in the United States and the United Kingdom precisely because they are extremely well-qualified and often will work for less pay than their Western counterparts. Economically speaking, it also makes sense for educated Indians to publish in English since their writings will reach a much wider audience.

Of course, Europeans and Americans are also influenced by Indian philosophy, and Indians, in turn, are influenced by Western thought. Take for example, the political tactic of nonviolence. Mahatma Gandhi came up with the idea of nonviolent resistance while living in South Africa and after studying law at University College in London. Living in the West intensified Gandhi's interest in traditional Hindu texts, which he undoubtedly compared to what he was learning about Western thought. He, in turn, influenced Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King.

When someone asked Gandhi if he was a Hindu, he answered, "Yes, I am. I am also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, and a Jew." To take a cue from Gandhi, the world is far too small for Indians not to be influenced by Europeans and Americans and vice versa.

Now for a personal case in point: After speaking at an academic conference on World War II, I signed away my copyright for the material to Louisiana State University. LSU then sold my manuscript to the "Journal of Contemporary Thought", an Indian academic journal. Please don't hold this intrusion against me.

Answer 5

Isn't going to happen, the People of India's Intellectual roots are deep in Western thoughts, to ingrained in there society. India pretty much welcomed with open arms the Western Cultures after some battles,uprisings and protest that where pretty small in scale for the size of the nation. Even after independence in 1939 they continued to ;model Western ways. Whats so wrong with that? every nations has copied another at one time or another, the whole world since the late 1800s has been becoming one large hodge podge of ideas,values and cultures. Blame faster travel, world trade and communications if ;you want, but the world isn't going to stop changing.l

Answer 6

About the same time that when I call Mastercard, I dont' get a dude in Mumbi.

Joined at the hip.

Answer 7

I believe that Western and Eastern philosophy will continue to come closer together.

Answer 8

Hopefully soon ;)

Answer 9

soon