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J. Farish, a member of the Bombay government, writes in his letter in 1838~

"The natives of India must be kept down by a sense of our power, or they must willingly submit from a conviction that we are wiser, more just, and more humane to improve their conditions."

He further writes, "If well-directed, the progress of education would undoubtedly increase our moral hold over India, but, at the same time, we should also ensuring that it does not lead the Natives to a consciousness of their own strength."

As the Colonial government wanted natives to help British surveyors and engineers in their work, it translated the Engineering curriculum to vernacular languages. The first such attempt was made in a college set up in Bombay by Elphinstone, with Lt. George Jervis as its director.

Also, Colonial authorities found it much simpler and politically wiser to create a class of cheaply paid but loyal Indian low-level bureaucrats to help staff the provincial offices and act as a buffer or intermediary class to stand between the government and the masses.

Charles Trevelyan, Macaulay's brother-in-law, wrote in his book On the Education of The People of India (1838), "We British should not try to instill in the native a deep grasp of subjects, but to force them to ape & recite English, and metaphysics in the most slavish fashion."

Today is the 110th Birthday Anniversary of Faiz Ahmad Faiz. His story is incredible.

Joined the Indian Army in 1942 (WW2).
Supported the Naval Mutiny.
Attended Gandhi’s funeral in Delhi.
Nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature.
Received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.

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Just like Bhagat Singh, Faiz was considered a Hero in Undivided British India. During WW2, Faiz served with a unit led by Akbar Khan, a left-wing officer and future Pakistan Army general.

Faiz rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

There was a mass recruitment of Indians especially socialist & communist activists into the British Indian Army and RIN (Navy) for war efforts against Nazi Germany after 1941.

However, once the war was over, the newly recruited men turned against the British, 1946 Naval Mutiny.

His poem Subh-e Azaadi (The Dawn of Freedom, August 1947) records his disappointment with the partition of the Indian subcontinent.

Faiz was imprisoned for more than 4 years after partition in a fake case popularly called "Pindi Conspiracy Case".

Communist party of Pak was banned soon after that Rawalpindi Conspiracy case.

He was held in solitary confinement in Sahiwal and Hyderabad (Sindh) jail and was even deprived of writing material. Faiz was again imprisoned in 1958 (Ayyub Khan’s martial law).

@UnSubtleDesi Hello Ma'am. Can you publish an article on SSC CGL'19 results? BJP is not right everywhere. As an editor, it's your responsibility to bring the attention of masses towards these issues too. Please look into the issue and write about the injustice we students are facing from SSC.

Well for starters, when modiji is talking about Digital India and all the other schemes, then why's an online exam, whose result normally takes 3-4 days to publish being stretched to 3 months, and that's just one of the 4 exams and document verification to be done to get a 1/n

post through SSC CGL. The whole process takes about 3 years (CGL'18 result has not been even finalised yet and it's 2021 already).
Now coming to the matter at hand (CGL'19), Tier 2 exam was conducted in 3 days for just 1,25,000 students. Why weren't the exams conducted in 2/n

a single day? And even if the exams were conducted on 3 dates, viz. 15,16and 18 November, why was the difference in difficulty level so huge? There is a process of normalization which equates the marks of the students based on the difficulty level of paper of a certain day, 3/n

but the paper on 18th was so easy that the whole algorithm just collapsed. Imagine the shock of the students when the saw the cutoff 528/600 in comparision to the cutoff of last year (433/600). Students who got 450 on 15th and 16th cleared this cutoff and students who got 556 4/n