what was India when britishers ruled (Golden Bird)

" I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and i have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, there fore, I propose that we replace her old ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation."

- Lord Macaulay's address to the British Parliament in February 1835.

“And in no branch of Sanskrit literature have changes been made so freely as in astronomical works. Not from unworthy motives; on the contrary, the Hindu astronomers were the only class of learned men their country who had an idea of science being progressive, not stationary or retrogressive”. Dr. Kern’s preface to Brihat Samhita