Anti - Brahmin campaign by the British, and History of India.
When the British started ruling India, they were disturbed by the high ideals and strong of the Indians which did not make it conducive for the British to rule over India.
When the British started ruling India, they were disturbed by the high ideals and strong of the Indians which did not make it conducive for the British to rule over India.
The life and career of Warren Hastings was one of the first to stir up a controversy, fear and debate in England over the influence of India on the British. 
Col.Alexander Walker, called Warren Hastings “Butcher of Saurashtra”, for he annexed Saurashtra for the British after a sustained 30 year long rampage. In the words of such a ruthless person, Warren Hastings was.
After his interactions with Indians and Indian scholars during his stay in India, this same “wicked” Warren Hastings later, had praise for Indian morality and literature. Hastings was a great supporter of projects big or small that would build India’s prosperity.
He founded the Asiatic Society of West Bengal and made way for Sir.William Jones to become the first president of the society. He was instrumental in coaxing the scholars of Bengal to open up their Samskrt literature and thoughts to Europe.
The British considered him to have become “Brahmanized” after his stay in India.
30 papers, each over 100 pages long, were presented highlighting instances of those, who according to them were becoming more “Brahminized” and had started advocating the cause and systems of India.
30 papers, each over 100 pages long, were presented highlighting instances of those, who according to them were becoming more “Brahminized” and had started advocating the cause and systems of India.
“Brahminization of the English man”, had become a popular phrase.
The British strategized to write the history of India from a British perspective. Towards this, they employed two Englishmen, James Mill and Charles Grant, to write the history of India.
The British strategized to write the history of India from a British perspective. Towards this, they employed two Englishmen, James Mill and Charles Grant, to write the history of India.
In 1813, James Mill and Charles Grant, wrote the “History of India”, wherein they classified most of the literature of India as Mythologies.
This formed the foundation of anti-Brahmin campaign in India.
This formed the foundation of anti-Brahmin campaign in India.
This history book formed the syllabus for the English administrators who had to graduate through Helebary College, England, before being deputed to India, so that their impressions of India would already be influenced and prejudiced, even before they stepped on Indian soil.
Mill and Grant feared that the rich culture of India would influence their own writing. They wrote in the preface of their book “History of India” that “they did not visit India” during their effort, “lest its rich culture influence them”.
So, even though, India got its freedom, the colonized mindset continued in the minds of the history writers of independent India. We continue to have to this day, only the colonial history of India.
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