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Civilising The Native: Educating The Nation

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Write a note on Mahatma Gandhi thought of Indian languages.

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Mahatma Gandhi strongly felt that Indian languages
ought to be the medium of teaching. Education in
English crippled Indians, distanced them from their
own social surroundings, and made them “strangers in their own lands”. Speaking a foreign tongue, despising local culture, the English educated did not know how to relate to the masses.

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