Thread by @GhostedOU812

This will be a #Burnol moment for many. I will give you proof that all the history we are taught in schools & colleges in pure junk. They were all written by a certain vested political class. We need to fix it now. This tweet is about who founded the great #CalcuttaUniversity +

The 1st ever letter drafted towards establishing a state of the art University in India in lines of Oxford and Cambridge was drafted than none other than my GGGG grandfather #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee in 1846. @primrose, you wanted it, I got it. The entire proposal! Earlier I ++

(3/n) just published the first page of the handwritten proposal. Here is the entire letter and everything is available at #UttarparaJoykrishnaLibrary if you want evidence. So here's the sequence of events in the run upto establishing one of the best Universities in the world++

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1846 - #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee sends a basic proposal to Cecil Beadon. Same year a detailed proposal (attached below) was sent to the Viceroy signed by Joykrishna Mukherjee, his younger brother Bijoykrishna, Rasamoy Dutta, Prasanna Kumar Tagore and a few more. They ++

(5/n) the core members of the Council Of Education. The proposal was presented at the London Court of Directors. The Directors sent a letter informing the Council that they were not in a position to consider sanctioning establishing an University in #India. Joykrishna was...

(6/n) was relentless. He presented the detailed proposal again in 1852 with signatures from Radhakanta Deb and a few more very powerful eminent members of our society. In the meantime Joykrishna was also the Chair of British India Council, one of the most powerful positions ++

(7/n) any Indian could hold under the Crown. The British authorities did nothing that necessitated that another proposal be presented to Sir C.H. Cameron on 18th April 1853 again. Joykrishna had a very good relation with Sir Charles Wood and it was important that this proposal+

(8/n) reached him. It finally did in 1856 and #CalcuttaUniversity was established in 1857 after the relentless 10 years of effort from 2 brothers - Raja Joykrishna Mukherjee and his younger brother Bijoykrishna Mukherjee. Initially there was no provision to teach vernacular++

(9/n) languages. Joykrishna had the highest regard and love for his nephew #SirAshutoshMukherjee and told his son #RajaPearyMohanMukherjee to extend any support required to keep control over Calcutta University while Peary Mohan focused on the Western Banks of Ganges - #Uttarpara

(10/n) #SirAshutoshMukherjee followed the footsteps of his uncle and cousin Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee. He joined Bengal Legislative Council in 1899 as a representative of Calcutta University where he was elected as a Fellow in 1889. Lord Curzon appointed him the Vice ++

(11/n) Chancellor of Calcutta University in 1904. Sir Ashotosh was one of the brightest minds India ever produced. He saw a big flaw in the University manifesto. Although the government had given permission to set up an University, they had not given permission to teach++

(12/n) vernacular language. The British wanted to create a supply chain of English speaking bureaucrats and clerks and keep the masses uneducated. Sir Ashutosh defied the diktats of the British government and introduced #Bengali as a subject at the University in 1906. He ++

(13/n) instituted the M.A. Degree in 1914. Every student studying at the University appearing for MA had to take a vernacular language besides Bengali.This model was later replicated in University of Bombay and University of Madras. The 4 Mukherjee's of the same family++

(14/n) did what millions of "pre-eminent" Indians could not do - they broke the British spine and will to control the minds of India. The result? Calcutta University produced #SwamiVivekananda #SriAurobindo #AcharyaJagadishChandraBose #MegnadSaha #AcharyaPrafullaChandra #CVRaman

(15/n) #RabindranathTagore #AbandindranathTagore, #SatyendraNathBose, Amartya Sen, Abhijit Bhattacharya...hundreds and hundreds of great Indian minds. Yet, if you look at either CU website or @Wikipedia there is no mention of #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee. Time to open your eyes to

(16/n) to what it is and not what has been sold to you.

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