Colonial Subjugation False Anti-Hindu Narratives🔗

British rulers perpetuated the narrative that Hindus were generally illiterate and education was restricted to high-caste Hindus, but their own surveys revealed that every village had at least one school and Sudras and other low-caste children constituted 70-84% of students. In contrast, a century of direct British misrule of Bharat left the population with a dismal 12% literacy rate.

Survey of Indigenous Education in Madras Presidency 1822-1826