Capt.Popeye
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Man, we have an old piece of paper, its scan, with picture of that gentleman, and you have the full written record? Where did you get that? and what just you claimed about India in 17th century, Indians were in a terrible wretched state before the British came except for a handful of people & I mean a handful (a few hundreds). The vast majority were poor & could barely eke out a living.
While I Just said that, this piece of paper has truths because, we have something on the website of Indian government also., read my very first reply to this thread.
You may write anything you want and as you have already said your knowledge about India till 17th century, its doesnt worth talking more on this matter with you. You would keep writing something something and post, while we all here know that even British government keep changing the facts on time to time about how they really ruled on their colonies. then how can you say what was actually right? But few things are facts which we have on the government website of India, with a scan of a piece of paper on discussion.
And that profound scan of paper that you even seek to offer up has something written in Tamil or Telugu or some South Indian language. So we have to guess that Macaulay started off to pen down his thoughts in a language alien to him? You've gotta be really funny.
I hold no brief for Macaulay least of all the British Raj, the East India Company with characters like Clive and Hastings, but find it amazing that some fiction is sought to be pased off as truth. Read Amitabh Bacchan's comments on his blog in 2008 when he posted this purported scan and then again he withdrew it. Since then it keeps popping up on websites which love to see a particular hue.
If that keeps you happy so be it, but I can see no reason to fool about with a truth whatever be one's compulsions.