C P Brown: David Brown

22. David Brown

David Brown from Hull, whose parents were farmers, was not interested in agriculture. At 11years of age he was supposed to have attracted all the neighbours by “goodness” “interest in education” “philosophical outlook”. The biography abounds in such insipid eulogies from the start. A Christian priest took him to Scarborough for education to become a missionary. – A period of 12 years is skipped .We find him in a grammar school in HULL, and Magdalene College where he was supposed to have learnt philosophical matters, religious matters and languages like Greek etc. without a mention of any proficiency achieved or even the period of study. This vagueness is deliberate because the biographer slowly wants to build up his hero later that he was a great scholar in Greek, Latin, Parsee, and Arabic, though not even a school certificate exists.

One Major Mitchell of East India Company (E I C) suggested a job of a superintendent of an orphanage in Fort William Calcutta. DB signed his agreement to go to India though the pay was less than expected, agreeing to the conditions that
a. He had to get married and
b. Had to be ordained.
All within a short period as the ship in which he was booked was to sail in a fortnight.

Ordainment

DB approached Dr. Lowth, Bishop of London who refused because several he had ordained lounging about the town. Dr. Watson, Bishop of London agreed to do only if the archbishop of Canterbury agrees. DB finally gets “ordained” on 27 February 1785and becomes a member of “The Society for Promotion of Christian knowledge”. The Gol Mal of ordainment shows some suspicious deals, which were the order of the day (we will hear of this issue of ordainment about 24 years later, when DB was charged of not having been ordained!)

He married on 4th March within 5 days of ordainment! Rao Says ‘It was a love marriage and they knew each other for long’, though DB himself says, “I am now to reside in Chelsea, and have very little money and food for my wife and self. I had financial problems; and borrowed money.”

The biographer says, “From the beginning DB had a love for Indian Languages” which is a preposterous statement because -
(a) DB was reluctant to come to India but was persuaded
(b) Reluctant for priesthood but had to take it up as a job requirement and
(c) He left the college, parents et al. for an Eldorado where all England came to.
(d) No Indian language was being taught in the Magdalene College in 1800?

Why is it the biographer makes such misleading statements if it is not due to a slavish mentality of adulation?

DB joined the Orphanage on 18th June ’86, and was also a chaplain of a Brigade in Fort William. In Aug ’88 he left the orphanage for the mission church. In 1794 – Presidency Chaplain – and later the Provost of Fort William College, Provost – Vice Provost were abolished on 21st May 1806. Rao says that from the establishment of the college DB was working hard for their development. It is another lie, since he joined as a provost years after the college was established, and he was not allowed to work, even when he volunteered to work without pay!

An interesting fact is that Rao underplays the fact that (Brown’s) clerical authority, was under threats and someone tried to prosecute him for the performance of ecclesiastical duties to which he had not been ordained. Mr. Brown was only a deacon of the English Church and his enemies affected to believe that he had not received Episcopal ordination at all. One of their number, therefore wrote to him demanding a sight of his ‘letters of orders’, and another told him that ‘a process of law was about to be commenced against him, which, in the first instance, would subject him to legal penalties, and ultimately to degradation. The matter was closed, as the governor intervened but it appears the hasty ordainment was bought for a consideration. i.e. bribe.

Is DB a linguist?

“It was Mr. Brown’s opinion, that the Asiatic languages demanded and deserved revival”. A person who never left Calcutta, or even the churches talks of revival of ASIATIC languages. Rao reports this without even questioning the competence behind such utterances. {This clearly, sounds like CPB’s lopsided views on Telugu.}

DB dies penniless

DB Died on 14th June 1812, penniless. His widow wrote his Memoir to raise money. 193 copies were sold for 19300Rs. and the biographer shows it as a big deal forgetting that the 100Rs per copy given by the people is about 3 days pay at the most for them. In fact this is an indication of his low status, but one biographer later says that DB’s death was a great loss to the public and mourned by them etc!

What is the public he talks of? The biographers make wild statements without analysing that these ideas condition a reader to look up to the Great Masters by whom it was their good fortune to have been ruled. I therefore debunk such statements as I proceed. I have checked 9 books, dealing with that period, and of Calcutta with no reference whatsoever to DB except an insignificant write up in ‘Good old days of John Company’-
“David Brown (1763-1812) arrived at Calcutta in 1786 as a chaplain. He held several clerical charges, including the ministry of the Old Church, 21 years, and 10 years the senior Presidency chaplaincy; he founded the Auxiliary Bible Society. Acted as Provost of the College of Fort William (1800). Died at Calcutta on June 14, 1812.

Rao says, David Brown though he was paid 10000Rs. per year, left no money because his house was always full of guests. This is an absolute, un-distilled, non-sense. This nonsense was repeated by other biographers also. Why do the biographers take the reader for granted and make fools of them? Is it justified? There should be a law against this sort of mischievous exaggeration. Let us see some facts.
1.No one was allowed to leave Britain without a sort of work permit. So DB had no poor guests / relatives to be looked after. They all come with distributed loot.
2 A rupee then was equal to 500Rs today. So his pay was approx 50lakhs per year, or 4lakhs per month. {In addition he gets 16pounds, 80000Rs. in today’s value, per marriage he conducts}.

Let us assume 10 guests every single day of the year. The expenditure guest be 200 Rupees per day, the total cost of the guests in a month is 60000Rs, (10x200x30) a mere 12% of the pay of400000Rs.

If Rao or anyone doubts these calculations another method of expenditure on the guests can be worked out.
Assume that DB had daily, totalling - 10guests.
Assume each one eats per day - 1kg Rice / Wheat
- 4 eggs.
- ½ kg pulse.

Fore one month the cost of above 30kg Rice 1Re.
120 eggs 2Rs.
15Kg pulse. 1Re.
Double it to cater for all other
Expenditure 8Rs. per month.

For 10 guests, 80Rs per month or 960Rs per year or 10% of his pay

This expenditure on guests can never pauperise any one. I want the reader to see how unsubstantiated loose statements praising the Master is a psychological bondage of even highly educated leaders of Indian Society today like Dr. Rao or Bezwada Gopala Reddy.

Why then did DB die penniless? For this we have to take him not as an exceptionally benevolent person but as an exceptionally secretive person – a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide personality – the Hide part vanished into thin air exactly as in the famous WELL’s novel, when on death Hyde vanishes and Dr. Jekyll’s body is seen. Or as in the picture of Dorian Grey when on death, Dorian gets his sinful face. DB himself described the English Chaplains, 4 out of 9 as debauchees. – As if he cannot be one of them – what if, if he was one?? And now see what BACHANAN a fellow missionary whom Wellesley honoured says about DB, “as a strange person”. In what way was he strange?

In other words, to be plain DB, likes his son CPB probably had enough of female skeletons in his cupboard on whom the money poured, exactly as did CPB’s money went into Ladies Parties.

The tragedy is the biographers want to glorify DB’s pauperage saying that it is due to benevolence. In case of CPB they want to glorify that it is due to his MSS purchase, and poets etc. Why do they do it? The simple reason is they have lost all self-esteem, pride, and confidence in themselves as a nation and do not want to catch a white man robbing us!

We, denigrated all our Poets, Languages and Cultures and therefore have to import Cult Figures, Great Guys who spent their all on GUESTS! And tell our youngsters “LOOK how great he is. He comes here to teach us Christianity, loses a son but continues preaching, spends all his life for us preaching those soldiers of the brigade to fight and subjugate these ignorant natives, is bothered about all Asian languages, produced a great son who in turn sacrificed his all to keep on buying all available Palm leaf books anywhere in Andhra saving them from white ants … etc remains a bachelor with just one concubine. This is the picture they want to give the 21st century Andhra. God only can de-condition us if He wills.

CP Brown: Biography and Biographer

21. Biography and Biographer

A biographer has an onerous responsibility to speak the truth about his subject and not mislead the posterity by presenting a one sided, false picture. If the person involved, is someone like GANDHI there may be numerous biographers, dealing from various angles and the readers get, different facets of the personality. On the other hand, in case of persons like CPB, who wrote three autobiographies each differing from the other in a period of 20 years without any corroborative evidence for any of his boasts, the biographers have a very responsible job. Further, CPB was selected and trained by the East India Company, a banditry that systematically destroyed India economically, educationally, and culturally, and left the country broken forever. Therefore the biographers have a greater responsibility to sift all statements, cross check… analyse… and go to different sources.

It was the bounden duty of the biographers, to bring truthfully the atmosphere in India during 1800 to 1850 A D to let the reader understand the contribution of their subject. Instead the biographers presented a distorted picture in order to substantiate their false claim of a glorified service by CPB. I have therefore collected relevant information to bring to the readers mind a picture of India in that period; in “Important Extracts” at chapter 30. Readers are advised to read it first.

The Indian intellectual powers and the value systems of our society those of are much higher than the Westerners we do not have anything to learn from these westerners, who, as we have seen form the scum of human society and came to trade and by a quirk of fats gained power. Therefore, one should think twice before writing about a common Westerner. My contention is that CPB does not even deserve a biography. The British came out of greed for money, not for culture. I have mentioned elsewhere that even the BODEN chair for Sanskritic studies was established to assist missionary activities. There is a saying in Telugu – how can a Pig enjoy Scented Water.

The biographers have picked up an undeserving subject, and decided in advance, to project a shadow personality as a solid achiever. The study proceeds and the biographer completes his work with public funds. That is exactly the case of CPB’s biography. After Rao’s biography, a research project was started, which came out with 3 books, then another Government contribution for another biography. Now follow articles in papers, and magazines. Finally some old professor repeats the same material in another short biography. The circus goes on.
Hardly any analyses were done of any of CPB’s exaggerated statements. There is no corroboration any where for his claims. There is NOT ONE supportive evidence for his claims. All information, which surfaced against him, was just ignored. I have therefore analysed
His loans
His purchase of thousands of MSS
His expenditure on mss and pundits
Cases against him
His so called literary Karkhana

Economic conditions at that period etc in short all that the biographers should and could have done. I have used only material contained in the same books, which the biographers have written, as there is nothing else available of this mediocre person.

Whatever CPB got published WERE WITHOUT EXCEPTION THE WORKS OF QUALIFIED PUNDITS, their labours and the credit thereof was appropriated by CPB. It is like a printer getting all the credit for a book rather than the author, a sort of a tail wagging the dog situation. Dr. Salwa Krishnamurti writes, “Your book has pricked the bubble. Whatever may be the averments of CPB-enthusiasts I believe it was the poor pandits who did almost all the work”.
The one and only one activity he did was to amass a lot of manuscripts, the Leydon collection from the corridors of IOL, the McKenzie collection lying in the corridors of the Madras Library and his own from some people. Was it done to preserve them or to deny their access to the people? Or to print and make money as literary labour was cheap? The Nation is still in a mesmerised mood, incapable of seeing through the wily colonial game. We still ascribe to them a credibility they do not deserve and are afraid of taking bold stances. I covered this aspect in the chapter, Palm leaf manuscripts.

There is not one single outside source confirming any statements made by CPB. All the facts about himself which he stated are self-contradictory and do not stand an impartial scrutiny. At vital places he has not even given full data to enable us to verify even 50% of what he was saying. In certain cases he conceals the back up information totally so that no investigation is possible. Such being the case a biographer has a great responsibility.

When I analyse the sentences I find them all full of misinformation. For example where CPB himself says, “I easily obtained every volume however. In sacred or secret” – Rao says’ he made Herculean efforts to collect! Why does Rao say so and exaggerate the effort involved in collection?

CPB wrote that “The library of Sanskrit and Telugu manuscripts which I have collected cost me more than 30,000 Rupees” Bangorey adds ‘This might be a rough estimate, and the cost of preparing paper copies and commentaries perhaps not included in the amount.” He does not see the cruel famine, and CPB buying from the fleeing people. He bought 350 Mss for 642Rs. Pundits are cheap by the dozen. . Bangorey doesn’t think of all this at all! I proved else where what a total lie this figure of 30000Rs. for Mss is. Strange it may seem, he spent NOTHING spectacular. Witness following purchase: _
1830 K. Venkanna Wife sold for (say 350 books) 370Rs.
1834 M. Sarvesa Linga 613 books 150Rs.
Peddapuram Avasarala Venkata Rao(250? 796Rs.
A lawyer from Rajahmundry ???

Let us apply the concept of circumstantial evidence to CPB’s claims for saving the language. He never heard of Telugu till he reached Madras aged 20 after having spent two years in the Hailebury College. He spent 3years in the Madras College with Telugu as a subject of study. Yet he had to use an amanuensis to read, explain and take answers. He was 26 when he took to liking Vemana – who as we all know is the simplest of Telugu poets. Yet he disclaims classical grammar; classical methods of Teaching, and also makes a statement Telugu was dying. How did he arrive at that conclusion? Who said that? If it was his idea how did he arrive at it? Why do we take it in unquestioningly?

The problem that is facing the Andhras is the myth of CPB as a saviour of a dying language. We don’t want to call this bluff off because having erected statue, named libraries and streets to reject it now we look small. But it is better to face it once for all rather than perpetuate it. It is exactly like the Aryan Theory foisted on us. We believed it and taught it and we don’t want to feel ‘foolish’ and stop teaching it even when most of the world is seeing it for what it is – a big colonialist bluff.

In what way did CPB ever think that comparing Latin metres is of any practical use to Telugu poetry? Latin was already a dead language even in the west. Therefore to imagine that such comparative study is of any use is ridiculous, and we feel proud of this nonsense.
Although the book is supposed to be about the local history through Cuddapah half of it is devoted to CPB’s bungalow naming it as a literary factory of Brown thus misleading the reader. This dilapidated building was projected as home for some influential writers and as a great centre of literary activity. There is absolutely no truth in such a view. Here is a typical case as S.S. Sastry wrote, wherein the historian of today injects the present complexities of life and society, into the past ignoring the then existing situation. In the present case it is done deliberately by three groups lifting CPB from the dustbin into which history threw him and present him as a champion of the present day literary field. The three groups are-
The Communist Group, superimposing a feudal exploitative society into that period castigating the poor Brahmin who was half dead by then;
The regional Royalaseema Group who imagine that their contribution to literature is neglected, and

A Castriest Group projecting the Brahmin as the criminal of Telugu literary world, and side with the missionaries who enjoy the ‘Tamasha’ they started in 1800.

Bangorey is an intelligent honest and straightforward historian. His communistic zeal is understandable considering the fact of Telungana struggles against the Nizam. But he distorts the situation in CPB’s times by saying “Solidified Traditions”; blind and religious domination, political forces stifling the creativity of the people.

All these concepts are wrong. There was only one force at work and that was the British weaponry. The poverty was such that both the unskilled labour and the so-called pundit had to struggle to exist. Words like blind faiths becoming political forces are mischievously inserted to mislead and brainwash the present generation towards hatred of some classes of today. Both these ideas of class / caste domination and exclusivity of the pundits were the poisonous seeds shown by the CPB on behalf of the British, as he was trained to do so, and unfortunately
“The prejudices of the HINDUS and their murmurs against the wise government” [Bangorey’s book 1973, on Telugu Journalism]. Is it not sufficient to see the inner psychology and the total blind eye to the devastating Famine or the starving workers around him”.

RM McDonald says that a few months before his death CPB told him that what he received was 1/15th of what he spent. A senile old man, still grieving at efforts h e made of the grapes he could not reach – This is the person whom our writers want to project as a selfless indefatigable lifelong worker?

Compare the exaggeration of the greatness of CPB written by our biographers to what the Royal Asiatic society (May 1855) says about CPB on his death.

QUOTE
After having some instruction in Syriac, Arabic and Persian; and Greek and Latin he came to England”

C P Brown: Guntur famine

20. GUNTUR FAMINE

Wherever the British took controls Famines ensued – Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and then Andhra. They were so devastating and the human misery caused war indescribable. One such is the GUNTUR FAMINE.

The Famine was a direct result of the British rapacity. Bangorey dealt with it in 23 pages, and 5 letters but obfuscates all relevant issues, which could be really brought out. He packed lies and misinformation in order to extol CPB for the most ridiculous reasons, and to cover up the British depredations. I shall discuss these in some detail.

Bangorey says that CPB was concerned of the people. This is a blatant lie. The readers may please judge for themselves. Remember people were dying like flies in Guntur - Letter written by CPB on 5th Sep 32 is translated below: -
CPB’S order to KR. The application (letter) written by you on 26th Aug; that due to lack of rains, the river had dried up, resulting in the garden drying up and water not coming into the well. You wrote that, the ‘Lord’ said he will give 50Rs., and also 2 month ‘s rent in advance. We are not getting any income from the garden. Even then we agree for digging the well. 'Before your letter came I wrote you to give 70Rs to Vangipuram Narasimha Acharulu. Therefore after deducting that, balance you have plus taking the 2months advance rent You can get the stone walling, floor etc done. If the money is not sufficient you can take the 50Rs., which the ‘Lord’ said he will give. If you want any more you write and we’ll reply.'

Is there a single word of any, concern, and anxiety, feeling for the Cuddapah people as Bangorey writes? Bangorey’s words ooze of pathetic poesy, as if CPB was on the verge of tears for his beloved Cuddapah!

CPB took charge as Acting Collector of Guntur District from W. Mason on 21 Dec 32.
Bangorey, instead of going deeply into details about the Famine, takes this ghastly event to praise CPB the great humanitarian, “on the 5th day of taking charge, CPB went out of his way, to write to the government the difficult conditions”. But actually letter written on 31st Dec ’32 and 16th Jan ’33 show CPB’s problem with law and order due to dacoitees; and possible law and order problems requesting for ammunition and problem for the movement of the 45th Regt! NOT how to improve the Food / Water situation. No references of his tour! No numbers given of deaths etc In fact he totally failed to rise to the occasion. The govt. naturally asked for figures of Crimes; saying the letters “creates a distrust of the accuracy of your information”.

Let us see the Prices of items within six months!

It is full 2 months after taking over on 21 Dec, In a report on 21 February he says that he started relief works and “I trust that the steps I have adopted will not be disapproved by the board” – Look at the, acting Collector’s weakness and lack of initiative, and guts, – and absolute of lack of fore sight. Here Bangorey, who praised the action of writing a letter within 5 days of taking charge, falls silent and doesn’t want to ask his protégé, as to what he was doing when corpses were lying on roads!

The famine continued – March 6 – March 15th Bangorey doesn’t even notice CPB says, “I expected to be relieved earlier and Mr. Blackwood has taken too long and therefore he delayed trying the corrupt amines on corruption charges. Here is a judicial person, notices rampant crime and ignores taking steps! And the biographer also keeps silent.

Reverend Howell gloats over the Famine

A Letter on 8th April 31st written by William Howell, a missionary in Cuddapah to London Missionary Society says that he rejoices at the famine that enabled him to reap souls.

“Taking advantage of this situation the missionaries jumped in to convert people to Christianity” says Bangorey. Simply as if it is a part of the process. No condemnation of the Government, no word about the culture or society in danger! Here are living staring skeletons being told to get converted and saved or go to perdition, and our Shri. Bangorey just say that they took “advantage of a situation”. Bangorey should get the lists and numbers of people who got converted in that year alone. To day if that belt is full of convertees is it not the work of
HOWELL CPB combine? Bangorey underplays any dastardly activities of the British as well as the Christians. Is it not anti national? Bangorey doesn’t make any observation on these notes, though he is supposed to be writing about Kadapa’s travails in this period. When he criticises a historian for calling it a “Guntur Famine” and not 'Cuddapah Famine!! He ignores the church, which distributed boiled rice water letting the famine go on its death dance so that in the last days they can attract dying people and give them the baptism. Howell gloats that even Brahmins came for his rice water camps.

Even after relating the unimaginable devastation Bangorey doesn’t leave his mission of advocating the British! He merely says “a government soft towards Christianity…” while it was a part and parcel of the whole conversion process. Let us see some unfortunate statistics –
Famine affected people flocking to Madras to Refuge Camps.
By 4th May 1833 - 110512
By 8th June 1833 - 168808
By 6th July 1833 - 217386
Dead in one week … 378

H. LACON asks for a grant of 40/- per day- from the Govt. which was busy swindling the people In September 1833, he spent 740 Rupees for 30237 people which comes to .08 Naya Paisa per man per day.

In April 1833 a Ship with Rice arrived in Masulipatam from Calcutta but returned. South Canara and Malabar had lots of rice but not imported. While Vizag and Ganjanm prices of Rice etc were half, but not moved to Famine areas.

175000 Manugula Salt went to Bengal from Nellore Isuka Palli port.And our hero was witness to all this. Is there a single letter from him, whose heart was bleeding, on these issues to the government?

The famines started off as the British ryotwari policies of overtaxing through crack collectors, jamabandis, and so-called settlements started causing havoc with the collapse of the peaceful coexistence of the village unit. In the first half of the 19th century, there were seven famines leading to a million and a half deaths. In the second half, there were 24 famines (18 between 1876 and 1900), one in every 16 months, causing over 20 million deaths (as per official records). W. Digby, noted in “Prosperous British India” in 1901 that “stated roughly, famines and scarcities have been four times as numerous, during the last thirty years of the 19th century as they were one hundred years ago, and four times as widespread”. In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis points out that here were 31 (thirty one) serious famines in 120years of British rule compared to 17 (seventeen) in the 2000years before British rule.

It will not be out of place here to describe the in human cruel practices adopted by the British to collect land revenue:
Tying a man down in a bent position;
Squeezing the crossed fingers;
Pinches, slaps, blows with fist or whip,
Twisting the ears,
Making a man sit with brickbats behind his knees;
Putting a low caste man on his back;
Striking two defaulters’ heads, or tying them by the back hair;
Tying by the hair to a donkey’s or a buffalo’s tail;
Placing a necklace of bones or other degrading or disgusting materials round the necks;
And occasionally, though rarely, more severe discipline”.

From – Economic history of India page 123.

Madras was rich in the remains of reservoir tanks, built by old rajas and Polygars; and Dr. Francis Buchnan had observed and described them in course of his journey from Madras to the West Coast as early as 1800. But irrigation was sadly neglected; and when, sometimes, a Collector undertook the restoration of an old reservoir, it was mainly with the purpose of adding to the heavy assessment of his district.

The works were constructed at a great expense; the company then raised the land revenue as much as it was possible to raise it, leaving the unfortunate cultivators as permanently poor as they were before.

C P Brown: Economic Parameters

19. ECONOMICAL PARAMETERS


The economic parameters are of utmost importance in the quality of life after the advent of marketing concepts, representational value in monetary teams, elimination of barters and self-sufficient village communities. Before 1750 India was in a well-developed stage and a world force in industries and exports of cloths, spices, carpets etc.

The tremendous wealth of this region in particular was known to the entire world It excelled not only in material wealth, but cultural, religious, literary, and political.

Slowly the abject poverty, resulted in unprecedented famines in which children were sold and thousands, moved from place to place, never to return to their homes. In spite of such calamities, CRACK COLLECTORS were employed for extraction of the revenue. A graphic portrayal is given verbatim from a book Letters from Madras…by a lady, 1846, P 144. “The collectors are chiefly bent upon keeping up the revenue, whatever may happen and the people suffer terribly when they have any additional draw back. A ‘Crack collector' as the phrase goes, is one who makes a point of keeping up the revenue in defiance of impossibilities. There may be a famine, a hurricane; half the cultivators may take refuse in another district in despair; there may seem no possible means of obtaining the money; but still the collector bullies, tyrannizes, starves the people – does what he likes in short, and contrives to send the usual sum to the Board of Revenue, and is said to be a ‘crack collector’. This extract is from the book of Shri. Bangorey, a votary of CPB.

Equivalent values, Prices, ratios to understand the standards of living

Only those equivalent parameters which are of some use in evaluation of the economic standard of living in 1820s, as available are given. It is very important to keep these in mind, to visualise the mind boggling loot that went on. In a nut shell, even a hundred Taimurs or Abdalis or Ghaznis could not have looted from India half as much as the British did, in less than a century. But this fact is not being projected by our own writers.

1seer = approx 1kg.
60-80kg of wheat was sold per rupee.
80-160kg of Rice was sold per rupee.
Price of Eggs 40-50 per rupee.
Pay of a Judge and Magistrate: 24000/- per annum 36000/- Pounds
-maximum
With this pay he could employ 7500 people throughout the year! And enjoy their labour.

WRITERS pay – in 1820, 500 pounds per annum (420Rs. per month).
(CPB’s Rank) After six Yrs 1500 pounds (1260Rs per month)
9 years 3000 pounds (2020Rs per month)
After 12 Yrs 4000 pounds (3300Rs per month)

EIC generally employed 30 Writers for civil service at each of the 3 Presidencies.
Number of servants employed by a private family – 57 people at a Total pay of Rs. 290 pm; an average of 4 Rs. per head.

The bulshit of expenditure by DB exposed.
“Catch the bull by the horns” they say to indicate getting into the problem in depth. The time now is ripe to catch this ‘bull’ the manuscript collectors by the Westerners by horns.

Let us list out some pseudo facts: -
1. CPB donated in 1944 to The Madras Library 2440 manuscripts
2. He spent all his money from pay etc.
Plus loans for the literature as per JHS 60000 Rs.
As per GN Reddy 40000 Rs
As Per CPB himself 30000 Rs
3. From letters from KR he spent altogether, on poets about 400 Rs
4. His payment Rates to Pundits
Average 8 Rs.
For 1000 Poems copying in Telugu 5 Rs.
5. He had 15-20 people working with him.
6. He left Andhra areas Cuddapah Masulipatam / Rajahmundry in 1834, December permanently.

Now with above facts, let us make some inferences. My in-depth study of this whole built up story shows that in all his life he spent about 4240/Rs. only on purchase of Manuscripts.

The ghastly Truth is he collected only 441 Manuscripts. Most were at a pittance.

Cost of Manuscripts

If Truth is to be exposed, and explored it is even less. He got one lot of 342 for 230 Rs, he got a donation of a cartload of books, he used to borrow books and return, and KR had not mentioned any payment for any book to anybody. The analysis of GOML records show that CPB could not have acquired more than 500Mss.

Maximum Pays in Cuddapah

Now the tamasha of the literary factory started with the purchase of the Bungalow in Cuddapah. There are 6 names only from Cuddapah / Kambham which surface. These poets were working between 1828 and 1831 and from then on there was no work. So for 36 months Aug 28 – Aug 31, for 6 people, at 15 Rs per person, it comes to 3240 Rs.

Finally when Brownji went to Rajamundry, Masulipatam, Guntur, Trichinapoly etc etc for 4years till he left Andhra, in 1834 let us assume another 5 people working at 15 Rs pm for 4 years (1830 to1834) the pay is 3600 Rs. Thus the pay to all his poets in this literary Mahayagna is a total of 6840 Rs.

Possible Expenditure on the Yajna

Then in 1834 this Daksha Mahayajna got a chopper from Veerabhadra in England and CPB had to get back and come back sheepishly to Madras, never to set foot again into Andhra areas.
Any yajna has to have the Ritvigs. Let us see the confusing array of the poets. Under the heading Brown’s group of Pundits, “To the great sacrificial fire Of the literary yajna, as researchers, servants, scribes those who poured in their great ghee of knowledge as oblation in the FIRE are the pundits who are named”.

To sum up only 4 books were printed out of a maximum of 54 books, which were collected. Balance some 50 books we can presume were copied onto paper after correction.

This is the Great Service people crow on and on.

C P Brown: Politicalising Literature

18. Politicalising Literature

The role of a language as the foundation of the culture of a people had been dealt with. In order to emphasise how inseparable a language and culture are, Indians have gone to great depths of the Rasa Siddhanta and all the peripheral subjects. A philosophy of life, based on an eternal Pramana was made to seep into the whole society, through the Puranas, Itihasas, Temples, Rituals, etc through languages, verbal, nonverbal, arts and crafts. Even in the west ARISTOTLE and Plato or in modern times Mathew Arnold and T S Eliot have gone into the subject of culture versus language, though in an elementary, juvenile manner.

In Ancient India there was a hoary tradition, that a writer should subject his work to a Vidvat Sabha a sort of social scrutiny. The tradition died. Unfortunately Indians have NOT gone into how literature can be twisted and Poets influenced to turn the gift of the Gods, to political use. Thus they were ignorant of the British motives in studying our shastras (In a way we are still not fully aware of the international conspiracy to ‘downsize’ our cultural treasures of Vedas & Upanishads by pseudo western scholars like Michael WIZTEL of BOSTON UNIVERSITY]. This started with the British, and their divide and rule policy. It did not take long for them to spot the poor, starving, Brahmins, buy them and convert them to write Christavam books. Slowly but steadily they started injecting the poison of religious divides, caste divides etc through regulated articles, books. The tragedy is that Indians did not suspect them before it was too late. Let us recapitulate from Chapter 15.

Dr. Duff the historian recapitulates that the policy of the ancient Romans who invariably suppressed the language and the literature of the people conquered by them. He adds: “…1 venture to hazard the opinion, that Lord William Bentinck’s double act for the encouragement and diffusion of the English language and suppressing the native languages… is the grandest master-stroke of sound policy”

I am sure neither Vemana nor the Jangams nor Basaveswara wrote for political purposes!! Their aim was clear. Reform…. Re-form.
But let us see how all Europeans brought in the caste and religious factors into Vemana:

William Campbell –1854-1910 – “Some people born here resisted the authority of the Brahmins. Their writings are very popular and they are all non-Brahmins! Vemana is one of them.”
Maj. R.M. Macdonald:) “Vemana fought against his own religion”.
Lionel David Barnet: 1871 – 1960
Hardly any one can equal this Telengana peasant – poet. His poems are not born in the “Four walls of Mathas”.
Henry Bowers Inspector of schools in 1874
“The type of poems of reformation by Vemana cannot be liked by the superstitious, conservative “Hindus”! {In one stroke he castigates all Hindus as superstitious}

J D B Gravel 1858
A Kapu called Vemana was not recognised by Brahmins and was excommunicated! (Look at that dastardly lie!) But people had great respect.

CPB started the game of politicalising literature by hunting for Vemana poems; Jangam literature, the Dwipadas; and the Chatuvulu. His sole aim was to slowly inject the political poison, to divide people on the caste, religion and even using anonymous poems. Who knows if some were written by his cronies??

We have seen how the British made a master plan to demolish our Past and links with the past through language and literature. As one of the steps they saw to it that the village schools were starved of patronage, which resulted in their closure. The other step was to be critical of Sanskritisation; Brahmin hold; conservatism, uselessness to the people. This is one view Bangorey repeats calling that the people’s poetry was not allowed to come up. Imagine Bangorey calls CPB democratic! A CPB who gloats over his ladies parties!

Vemana was definitely liked by the entire Telugu people for all his excellent similes; ideas; philosophy. There is NO possibility of suppression as it was not a central Government!! All the Palaigars were Reddys or Kapus, owning all the land, soldiery, and power. Tradition says Vemana was also one of them. So where does the Brahmin, ex communication come in? But for the British, and Bangorey Truth has no value.

Another heinous part played by CPB is to collect poems and spread rumours.

Poems written, in a light vein as a repartee become a tirade if collected printed and propagated. The fun and humour behind them gets lost and only the venom shows out which was not the original poets’ intention. Even if it is an intention, it is better forgotten than enshrined for generations. One instance of this type is the one highly derogative of the REDDYS, who were actually the protectors of those days and I am sure no sane person will write such a poem for perpetuating their image. But that is exactly what CPB does. His aim was simple, make the Reddys hate the Brahmin, and write a similar poem against the Brahmin and slowly increase the poison in the societal blood stream. Let us recollect that this vicious person, CPB was writing letters anonymously. It was not a new game to get a few poems written by some starving poet and say they were collected!

As we see the society today, there is nothing but Political writing. They are not even leaving millennia old literature without a political analysis. The pure enjoyments, up lifting emotions have gone forever. Can’t we see how their Shakespeare was the forerunner of this prostitution of his Muse for a few crumbs, with his Historical Plays? Naturally the Western Mind can’t think even of an Amukta Malyada as anything but a Vaishnvaite propaganda poem.

It is time we get out of this unfortunate psychology and keep literature and politics; the poet and the ruler separate from each other. Let each do his work sincerely as in days gone by.

C P Brown: Was Telugu dying

17. WAS TELUGU DYING

One of the aims of this book is to show how the colonialists deliberately spread vicious ideas that our languages were dying under the stranglehold of Brahmin Scholars even though they were vibrant and the whole Indian Nation was culturally supreme in the world till the treacherous colonial advent.

The biographers quote CPB saying ‘Telugu literature was just glimmering in the socket’ and that he a foreigner ‘revived it single handed’. Who gave him this authority to pronounce on a great language with a 1000year history? He hardly could learn the rudiments of the language in 3 years in Madras College. As Caldwell said he is ‘illogical and unreliable in his judgements and changes his opinions like a chameleon’. Such is the person whose statement the authors, repeat. Telugu was very much alive. On the contrary, by his interference and wily statements he caused a lot of damage from which it has yet to recover.

CPB was the product of a college, established primarily as a counterpoise to the Orientalist dominated Fort William College. The products of this Hailebury College, an Occidentalist joint were trained to demolish the self-esteem of Indians and make people forget their glorious cultural unity and past. We have seen all that in Chapter on, Education In India. Let us see his LIES.

CPB: “In each district of the Telugu country I have these agents ‘Preposterous’ is the word for this statement. Coastal and Ceded Districts came under the British only 20 years before CPB arrived in Kadapa in 1821. His work in 12 years was in 3 towns Kadapa incl. Cumbhum; Rajahamundry and Masulipatam while the area he was talking of having his agents is twice as big as England.

How did he get the agents everywhere? Why? When? Were they under his pay? Was the network created as a spy set up? What for? And how did he set up his agents for literary work, when there were no roads, buses, trains, and telephones, not even bullock carts! Movement from Madras to Masula takes 26 days as gathered from a book on SATI. [After the first edition of this book, Dr. S. Krishna Murty Ex. GOML, and University of Madras wrote “One new aspect that emerges from your book is whether CPB was engaged in gathering Intelligence? Intelligence for whom? For the East India Company? If so why was CPB not favoured by EIC?” My considered view is CPB’s origin of FW, his mother, father as a captain in the Army - not a small rank in those days; his brother in Civil Service in Bengal, and the fact EIC got into the coastal area of Vizianagaram etc are vital facts to be kept in mind. Bhimlipatam, Kalingapatam, Balasore were all British dominated. Information in interior areas was of importance. The ‘Poor Brahmins’ are the only source of information about the Zamindars / Palaigars etc. one and one very indirect threat from KR does surface in this matter”. As a Police Officer CPB is best suited for this. EIC did not rewarded probably because he fell foul with all his officers.

CPB: “I had a complete establishment in Cuddapah”. A building was purchased in 1828 and in 1829 itself CPB was posted out. We find only 6 names of authors in all the 32 letters. They were paid from rents, were irregular in attendance, very little work on hand, and starving, sick and begging. One occupant of the Bungalow in 1831 threw out the pundits. Knowing all these facts, how can the author say that it was a flourishing literary factory?

CPB: In 1825 I found the Telugu Literature dead.It is a shame that intelligent writers like Bangorey, Rao and Arudra accept this from a person who himself says he did not have any interest in Telugu till 1827;that he did not read or own a single Telugu book in 7 years. CPB knew that what he says will be believed by the natives whose slavishness he could bank on.

When do you say a “literature is dead”

Strictly speaking is there a ‘death’ of a language? How can a Literature of the Andhras, TWO crores of vibrant people be dead? The man who said this hardly learnt any Telugu. How and where did CPB get this idea? How many ‘dead’ languages did he know? How much travel did he do? At what knowledge level can one make a devastating statement of this nature about the language of a people who number more than all of the British Islands put together? A language, which evolved the very finest blend of the Deva Bhasha and the 1000year old Telugu, a language loved and spoken in most of the Dakshina Patha? Due to their own narrow vision these miserable biographers repeat CPB’s statements fully knowing how untrue they are.

What is resurrection of a language?

To add insult to injury, Bangorey says that the statement is not a hyperbole! Note the statement that CPB raised it to life – like the resurrection of CHRIST?

Walking on the semi dead starving carcasses of Telugu pundits, paying them less than subsistence allowance, from the rents of the bungalow, calling them names, pedants, scoffing at them, putting their pathetic letters in ‘Readers’ to teach Telugu to the British, – this is the service he had done to raise a language from the dead languages into a living language? This is what Bangorey the votary of CPB, abusive of the academic fraternity, tells us and expects us to believe it.

Do CPB’s publications amount to resurrection?

Four Prabandhas, which CPB published for the erotic content that titillated him, and the dictionaries based on a host of those that were already in existence is all that the resurrection Bangorey talks of. It is not a hyperbole, but just a Lie.

A class struggle in literature?

Why then does Bangorey accept these lies that the language is dead! He says this heritage of literature though great is with a class of Pundits. It is not a lover of literature speaking. It is a votary of class struggle, a Mao Tse Tung who sent university professors to work in rice fields who is speaking through Bangorey.

Are Poets a class? A caste? A Race?

CPB says he learnt Telugu in his Police Office! Bangorey upholds that view. Bangorey's intellectual pretensions have to be dealt with as his hatred of Brahmins, is at the root of it. The question is where does literature / philosophy / art / culture live? In the gutters? In the Bazaars? In the battlefields? In slums? In bars? In brawls? In slaves? In concubinage? In nautch parties? In Police headquarters? At all these places also words are used. Rhymes / concepts / emotional out bursts / original tuneful songs are made. A Siddi Sani and a White Horse can make CPB an Omar Khayyam in no time. But is that philosophy?

Is that where the language of creative literature to uplift the human society live? The pernicious seed that CPB sowed is that the literature of that period was confined to the Pundit class (varga). Bangorey knows full well that this ‘class’ as he calls was in much more misery than Krishna Reddy, whose pride and sense of honour comes through while all the Brahmins had not even an iota of self esteem or pride and yet were somehow living and partly living. How then can he assert that the literature were in higher classes?

As one writer says, it brings ‘tears’ to see their plight and our Mao says that literature was confined to the “Pundit class” which parrot like, is repeated by other writers today. The result is there for all to see Telugu is dying NOW. As against 50 different subjects in which books were written by Andhras in 18th century, I wonder if we write even in 10 of them. The vocabulary of the Bazar, the Music from Michael Jackson,and the philosophy of the cinema, are blended and proliferating today. Bangorey repeats CPB’s statements of pedantry etc but adds puerile incoherent descriptions to say that literature went out of “the people’s life” “fallen pillars” “Kavyas in mud” “hacked out Banyan Trees’.

The Reality

The ‘Sabdartha Prapancha’ – a world of creative writing, which needs societal sustenance and in turns sustains the society’s cultural level, was at the lowest ebb due to grinding poverty of the entire society. There were neither leaders of stature or fighters with valour, or Poets with honour. There were only sycophants and bootleggers. But yet there were some pundits howsoever poor, the patrons howsoever poor as evidenced by the libraries and thousands of Mss. that were available. People had to be coaxed to part with them –since they loved them! And Rao, foolishly, calls that conservatism. The literature therefore was living and nowhere near extinction.

Spoken language

Bangorey puts his hero CPB on another pedestal as an advocate of spoken language!! A language that had nearly 50% words of Urdu/ Hindi/ Parsi / Persian/ breed introduced by the ruling Rajakars and every single word is for day-to-day transactions. THERE is nothing else and what difference does it make what language is used in shops or bars? To day don’t we find English having replaced Telugu all over? Even a Father is called DADDY! And every other person is either an Uncle or an Aunty! This is the Vyavaharika Bhasha Bangorey advocates and garlands CPB for advocating it.

Literary service

Bangorey hails Brown’s service to the Telugu Literature for merely correcting, a few odd Mss, getting four of them printed, and throwing the rest in a library since they have no monetary value in Britain. CPB’s cultural background is such that he cannot even conceive that literature lives in creative poets not in Palm-leaf Manuscripts .He derided the poets, called them pedants, ignorant of their own trade, and used them to copy, paying them subsistence allowance. Kings like Rajaraja or merchants like Thippaya Shetty have done a trillion times more service than this self-styled saviour of Telugu literature.

C P Brown: Andhra Literature

16. ANDHRA LITERATURE

Let us now see the state of the Andhra Literature in 1800 – 1900 despite all the wars over half a millennium. CPB made a statement that the Telugu literature would have died but for him.

The biographers endorse that deliberate Lie. The question arises therefore as to the motives of CPB as well as that of the biographers. CPB ‘s motives are to denigrate the Telugu culture, and language, and tarnish the poets so that the people lose their pride in their culture and past as well as their respect for their Gurus, the Brahmins. I have already shown that he has no competence to comment on the state of the literature as profound and vast as the Telugu literature. I shall now show some creations.

Extract from the History and Culture of Indian people, Vol 9.BVB. TELUGU - Of the 18th century.

Ananda Rangaratchandam of Kasturi Rangakavi was the result of a fruitful research on prosody. His Sambanighantuvu is a lexicon of pure native Telugu.

Kuchimanchi Jaggakavi is as much famous as notorious for his poem called Chandralekha Vilapamu.

Gogulapti Kurmanath Kavi was undoubtedly a great poet of the century. His Mrityunjaya Vilasamu is in a class by itself in Yakshagana literature.

Telangana consists of nine districts in the present Andhra Pradesh, which was formerly in the Nizam’s dominion. There was a marked flourishing of literature in that area during the 18th century – a number of small royal principalities like Surapuram, Gadwal, Palvancha, Domakonda, Jataprole, Vanaparti, etc. contributed to the growth of literature. Independent of any patronage, Lingamurty of Parashuram Panthulu family, originally belonging to a Maratha stock, composed a great work called Sitaramanjaneya Samvadamu wherein good poetry is coupled with lucid exposition of the advaita philosophy in all its aspects. It became since its appearance a handbook of every teacher and preacher of philosophy in the Telugu country.

Kiriti Venkatacharya, a distinguished scholar poet of this family composed 13 works. his Achalatmaja Parinayamu is in double entendre, wherein the marriage stories of Sita and Parvati are woven into one – a feat of scholarship and a kind of intellectual gymnastics.

The Telugu literary muse had its heyday in Tamil Nadu and also in Karnataka even from earlier times.

Shahji Bhosle (1684-1712), wrote twenty plays in Telugu. Ekoji II composed the Ramayana in dvipada metre.

Telugu literature received some attention and patronage in Karnataka even before the 18th century at the hands of some Kempa Gowda princes and Chikadevaraya Wodeyar.
His son and successor on the Mysore throne was Kanthirava Narasa Raju (1704 – 14) who was the author of eight works – more or less of the Yakshagana type, and scores of sringara padas.
Gunuguturi Venkata Krishnayya of Kolar composed his Nala Raghava Yadava Pandaveeyamu, every verse of which has a four-fold meaning to suit the four stories running concurrently. Such an achievement is only in Sanskrit and Telugu.

Koti Raya Raghunath Tondaiman’s poem called Parvatiparinayam is the product of a creative genius of a high order, rich in scholarship, descriptions and chamatkars and crafty in poetic diction.

Nudurupati Vengana, his court poet, compiled a masterly lexicon on indigenous Telugu in verse form called Andhra Bhasharnavam.

There are a few poems beaming with an original touch of their own, which are products of a rich imagination and results of a real craftsmanship, e.g., Radhamadhava Samvadamu, Shashanka Vijayam, Ahalya Sankrandanam. The literature of the period was mostly influenced by the padas of Kshetrayya of the previous century in structure and spirit.

AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TELUGU MANUSCRIPTS was prepared in 1932 by Government Oriental Manuscript Library (GOML). This book contains 3870 titles. Details of name, author, subject, paper oblique, Pl, complete or incomplete and a reference number are given. More than 60% of them are complete. More than 40-50% are palm-leaf. The subjects covered are Prabandhas, Philosophy, Grammar, Chandas, Seivam, Medicine, Satakas, Christavam, Stotras, Dictionaries, Erotika, Yakshagana, Astronomy, Astrology, Dvipada, Songs, Musicalogy, Mathematics, Puranas, Danurveda, Ratnapariksha (Gemmology), Dance, Kuchupudi (dance), Alankara Sastra, Vastu, Dharma Sastra, Humour, and History. Out of this extraordinary Panorama of Cultural writings Brown had collected about 30 or 40 out of which 20 are purely erotic poetry, which was already being rejected by the society. This one book from GOML disproves totally the statement of Brown that the literature was dying.

Bangorey’s job was to find out as to how many of these 3870 were collected by Brown. Why did he not do so? I think it was a deliberate omission to cover up the lies of Brown. There is Truth in TAYLOR’S statement that CPB was planning a plunder of the EIC. This can be easily found out even now.

I now give very few samples of some manuscripts, which have aspects of the societal Life for general interest. My brief comment is in brackets
2517. Kumaramuni Katha 2516, 2517; 2518, 2519 - all these about a girl who marries as per her own will; written in totally spoken language; in an excellent condition. {How do they stay that Brahmins hid the books.}
2501 A fisherman’s wife commits Sati. The British Collectors not only give permission but also witness it when she dies. She donates all ornaments of her husband to write his story! She performs miracles witnessed and felt by the White Collector – caste-ridden society? 2547.

C P Brown: Education in India

15. EDUCATION IN INDIA

Prelude:
The biographers are agog that CPB started schools wherever he went, implying that we should be grateful, because the towns were rotting in ignorance but for his 3 schools. This view is unfortunately an outcome of the psychological bondage we discussed, besides a total ignorance foisted on us by the same rulers. Even after 6o years of independence the country has not done any research to expose the British perfidy. We have to fight this reluctance of the governments, and bring forth all the facts and tell the whole world that India was the fountain head of all knowledge till the 18th century be it agriculture or ship design; culinary or cotton fabrics, steel or paints… you name it we developed it. Some of the facts are:
At the end of the 18th century the percentage of literates in India was higher than that in any European country. There were four kinds of educational institutions/venues.
i. Lakhs of Brahmin families who took in resident students,
ii. Tols or Vidya-peeths in all the principal towns,
iii. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Mussalmans studying in Mathas and Madrassas which covered the whole country, and,
iv. Pathashalas, even in the smallest village. EIC’s rule ended the ancient institution of the village Panchayat which was taking care of Pathashalas

Keir Herdie, in his book India:
Max Mueller asserts that there were then 80,000 native schools in Bengal. Ludlow, in his “History of British India”, where we have swept away the village system as in Bengal, there the village school has also disappeared’.

I quote extensively from the Report of A.D. Campbell, Collector of Bellary, dated 17th August 1823:
“The economy with which children are taught to write in the native schools and the system by which the more advanced scholars are caused to teach the less advanced, and at the same time to confirm their own knowledge, is certainly admirable, and well deserves the imitation it has received in England…”

“The process of extinction set in with the establishment of the Company’s rule and gradual impoverishment of the country. Of nearly a million of souls in this district, noteven 7,000 are now at school. In many villages where formerly there were large numbers of schools, there are none now. Various schools in which reading, writing and arithmetic were taught in various dialects of the country, as has been always usual in India became defunct.”

“Learning has never flourished in any country except under the encouragement of the ruling power; and the support once given to science in this part of India has long been withheld. Of the 533 institutions for education… in this district, I am ashamed to say, not one now derives any support from the State”… (British Government)

“There is no doubt, that in former times, especially under the Hindoo Governments, very large grants, both in money and in land, were made for the support of learning”.

“Considerable alienation of revenues, which formerly did honour to the State by upholding and encouraging learning, have deteriorated under our rule into the means of supporting ignorance”.

Can anyone who reads this report of A D Campbell, have any doubt as to how the British ruined our culture through closure of our very system of Education? By throwing us into that pit of darkness and ignorance, they could create the morons who are happy that CPB opened schools!
The systematic opposition by the new English rulers to any effort to make the people knowledgeable.

Almost all the Englishmen ruling the country opposed educating Indians. J.C. Marshman. “The British Government strongly opposed any system of instruction for the natives”. One of the Directors stated “we had just lost America in the establishment of schools and colleges, and that it would not do for us to repeat the same act of folly in regard to India”…

During the parliamentary enquiry of 1831, Major-General Sir Lionel Smith, said: “The effect of
education will be to do away with all the prejudices of sects and religions by which we have hitherto kept the country – the Mussalmans against Hindoos, and so on; the effect of education will be to expand their minds and show them their vast power”.

It is time to understand the situation of Education Vs Society in India,before the advent of the British. Kum. Nivedita quotes Fillmore saying “The droppings of India’s soil fed distant regions”. 15% of lands were revenue free and balance revenue was used to run schools, improving irrigation etc. In 1822 a survey conducted by the British Collectors found that Bengal had one-lakh village schools, in Madras there was not a single village without a school. Teachers belonged to all castes. The Brahmins accounted for 7 to 48% of the teachers and the rest from other castes.

1. Palm leaf MSS were available, in good condition and were donated frequently till as late as 1930, i.e. 100 years after that abominable statement of CPB.
2. Hundreds of Manuscripts are available, in reasonably good condition and available for printing..
3. Writing was done, even in 16th, 17th, & 19th centuries though not on a grand scale.

Fifth column
The British felt the pressing need of a body of English-educated Indians who could keep them posted about the prevalent inner feelings of the Indian people’s ideas and opinions and mould them in favour of the English. “Hindu Sanskrit College” of Banaras was established to meet this requirement.

A number of English statesmen felt that it was necessary to translate Christian religious literature into Indian languages to assist English missionaries coming out to India. Amongst the witnesses examined was Major Ronaldson who had been for 17years the Persian interpreter attached to the Commander-in-Chief at Madras, and had also been the Secretary of the Education Committee of that Presidency’s Government.

Ronaldson opined that the education of Indians results in making them hostile to the English Government. General knowledge of European history brings home to them the enormity of a vast country like India lying under the heels of a handful of foreigners. This realisation naturally leads to an eagerness in their hearts to help in the liberation of their country from Foreign Rule.

“I have noticed this hostility in Hindus and Mussalmans – to a greater degree in the latter – particularly when these people come to know the secret of the basis of the English rule over them” They thought that the only way to extinguish the patriotism of the Indians and to turn them into useful tools of the foreign rule was to impart Western education.

Lord Macaulay arrived in India in the first quarter and decided the issue in favour of the Occidentalists, whose chief aim was to prevent the rebirth of Indian nationalism amongst the superior classes and to turn them into useful tools of the English administration.

The well-known historian, Prof. H.H. Wilson, has characterised the achievements of the Macaulay-Bentinck policy thus: “…We created a separate caste of English scholars, who had no longer any sympathy, or very little sympathy for their countrymen or what is worse, knowledge of his country. And– shallow to the core if it existed (Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords, 5th July, 1864)

Dr. Duff the historian, whilst commending this policy, has compared it with the policy of the ancient Romans who invariably suppressed the language and the literature of the people conquered by them and educated the latter in Roman language, literature, ideas and ways of life. He adds: “…1 venture to hazard the opinion, that Lord William Bentinck’s double act for the encouragement and diffusion of the English language and English literature in the East and simultaneously suppressing the native languages… is the grandest master-stroke of sound policy.”

Dr. Duff also confirmed the views of another English scholar about the tremendous influence which the language used by a people has on the ideas entertained by them. Bentinck banned the use of Persian. (And any wonder as to why CPB raised the vyavaharika to the grand literature level?)

Sir Charles E. Trevelyan, a powerful advocate of the instruction of Indians in English, presented a paper,” POLITICAL TENDENCY OF DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION IN INDIA” English Educational Policy followed in India and of its aims and implications.

The instruction of Indians in Arabic and Sanskrit, and of keeping alive their age-old national literature, ideas and opinions would, in his view. “…be perpetually reminding the Mohammedans that we are infidel usurpers of some of the fairest realms of the faithful, and the Hindoos, that we are unclean beasts, with whom it is a sin and a shame to have any friendly intercourse.

“The spirit of English literature, on the other hand, cannot but be favourable to the English connection. Familiarly acquainted with us by means of our literature, the Indian youth almost cease to regard us as foreigners. They speak of our great men with the same enthusiasm as we do. They cease to think as violent opponents or sullen, conformists. “….As long as the natives are left to brood over their former independence, their sole specific for improving their condition is the immediate and total expulsion of the English.

The young men, brought up at our seminaries (Convents, Universities, colleges headed by British principals), turn with contempt from the barbarous despotism under which their ancestors groaned to the prospect of improving their national institution on the English model… they have no notion of any improvement but such as rivets their connection with the English, and makes them dependent on English protection and instruction…(In simple words the seminary is the training ground!

They will then cease to desire and aim at independence on the old Indian footing. A sudden change will then be impossible; and a long continuance of our present connection with India will even be assured to us. (How clearly do we see it happening now, alienating all our intellectuals from our national culture?)

Common Wealth: the educated classes… will naturally cling to us…There is no class of our subjects to whom we are so thoroughly necessary as those whose opinions have been cast in the English mould; (How deliberate and planned – 100years ago. and working wonderfully well!)

“The Indians will, I hope, soon stand in the same position towards us in which we once stood towards the Romans. From being obstinate enemies, the Britons soon became attached and confiding friends; and they made more strenuous efforts to retain the Romans than their ancestors had done to resist their invasion. (Justice party of south.) Our premature departure be dreaded as a calamity….

Even sensible and comparatively well-affected natives had no notion that there was any remedy for the existing depressed state of their nation except the sudden and absolute expulsion of the English.

The effect of training in European learning is to given an entirely new turn to the native mind. The young men educated in this may cease to strive after Independence.
And ages may elapse before the ultimate end will be attained. Lord Mont eagle, the Chairman of the Committee, educating India will be to postpone the separation for a long indefinite period.

A SUMMARY OF THE EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

India was the most literate country and in a survey by district collectors in 1822, it was found that there was not one single village in the Madras presidency without a school. We were made to believe that only Sanskrit was taught and that Brahmins only were in charge while, only 7% of students and 48 % of teachers only were Brahmins, and rest were from all castes. All children had education in their mother tongue for 4 to 5 years. This is the condition in which the British took hold of and in about 50 years demolished the whole structure. Look at what Macaulay says’ a single shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India’. Any wonder CPB states with that cocksure assurance only the ignorant can assert that Telugu literature was about to be extinct.

In1835, Bentinck published a resolution – stating that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature amongst the natives of India. A thorough research of the British activities during 1820 – 1880 will help us know the methodology and the systematic destruction of a society and its cultural wealth. It can help us get over that colonial bind. But unfortunately the same canards of “caste ridden”, “fissiparous”, “blind religions beliefs” are bandied about. That is exactly what these biographers are also perpetuating it. It is time. We make full efforts to get at a balanced view of the society then, which struggled to be on its feet.

C P Brown: Language and Culture

14. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Language – Indian View

Sanskrit is a Deva Vani and Telugu, which could absorb and digest Sanskrit more than other languages in India, has the same characteristics and potential of Sanskrit. The great Rishis who could receive, retain, reform and rationalise Sanskrit knew how exactly it is to be taught to live through generations conveying the thoughts. It is by these methods alone that literary giants like Kalidasa, or Nannaiya or Thikkana could spread the knowledge to the common and ordinary people through the vehicle of languages through centuries, till 1800 A D. It is the missionary mind with a desire to spread Christianity that created so many dissensions about our past linguistic heritage .CPB did this damage by using his intellect for the vile purpose of ridiculing, attacking and destroying whatever that he could not understand.

Language is a gift of the Gods to the human being. We can say it is a ramification of Consciousness, an effulgence of Consciousness in this Upadhi the human body. It is through the words - and the meanings- Sabda and Artha, the thoughts in the mental world propel the human being towards knowledge of the external seen world and the internal unseen world. Gradually language gets divided defacto into two sets of vocabulary- the language of the Vyavaharika Jagat and the language of the Paramarthika Jagat.

In concrete terms, Politics, Business, Industrial developments, and Sciences etc. need a set of words and a type of mind. On the other hand Philosophy, Poetry, and Arts need another set of words and another type of mind. Both are equally important at any given time for any society, but while the former is of the ephemeral world, the latter is of the Eternal, of perennial values for a Paramarthika society leading it from Darkness to Light.

Vedantins and Poets, even though small in Number are the most essential component of the culture and have always been highly respected even by the Kings .It is not unusual to find that the poets and philosophers were conscious of their role in the society. In the Gita Krishna himself says ‘Kavim Puranam’ emphasising the role of the Drasta.

Language - European’s ignorance

The ancient Greeks studied no language, but their own. Their great epic poems were composed in an ancient, unknown kind of Greek.

It was Indian knowledge that revolutionized European ideas about language. The Rig-Veda, even in the skewed estimates of the Westerners dates about 1200B.C. The proper way of pronouncing the Riks and their correct interpretation became extremely important and the Hindu grammarians extended their interest from the Scriptures to Literature, and even day-to-day spoken languages. The grammar of Panini presented to European Mind, for the first time, a complete and accurate description of a language.

Sanskrit disclosed the possibility of a comparative study of languages and an insight into linguistic structure, taught Europeans to analyse speech-forms the constituent parts, the resemblances.

This knowledge about languages and the Indian approach to the greatest faculty of HUMAN KIND, are beyond the intellectual grasp of the son of a Yorkshire farmer turned evangelist! How can he be expected to understand the highly intellectual creators like Nannaiya or Thikkana? An owl naturally curses the Sun, and so did the Macaulays and Browns of that neo rich industrial world, steeped in ignorance of the WORD – “farther from God and nearer to DUST” as ELIOT says.

CPB could not understand or memorise a few Sutras (what an Indian child does by the age of seven) and therefore denigrated the Pundits, the grammar and literature.

Language consists of a number of intricate elements of the Mind craving for expression. More refined, regulated, recapitulated and accurate these elements are, more the language becomes suited for greater advancement of the human culture and permanency of the civilization. Some of these elements are:
Sound, Modulation, Accents
Nuances Nonverbal
Script Vs Sound, symbols,
Cognition, Accuracy
Memory, (Time frozen in words)
Intricacy of thought
Creativity, (Originality)
Emotions.
Intuition.
Imagination

These are only a few of the elements. ‘Between the emotion and the expression falls a shadow’ says ELIOT as loftier the thought the more difficult the transference. Take away any of the elements, or arbitrarily modify any of them you will damage the very foundations of the language.

The problem with the British, and in fact with all Europeans is their incapability of understanding the importance of sound, the accents, which are the very life of words. Even today in spite of exposure to the highly refined languages of India they have not realised the importance of just one element, Sound and accent.

Culture

Language and Culture are inseparable.

The book Aryacharitram dealt with, the question of roots of a culture showing how language, literature, poets, saints, religion, rituals, values, philosophy all these are the roots of any culture and how they are transmitted from generation to generation through our Epics and Puranas.

Every human being has to contribute in furthering the culture into which he is born. It is like watering, manuring and pruning the trees in a garden with removal of weeds or even cutting off branches attacked by pests and parasites. You cannot dig down the base of a tree on the pretext of finding out the origin of the roots and thus destroy the roots totally. There are always invisible and unknowable factors in a culture in an unknowable symbolism, certain mysticism, which grows over thousands of years. It is this digging down which the European did, trying to segregate the so-called Dravidian – Aryan – aboriginal’ languages and in the process creating a destructive Divide in what was till then a peaceful monolithic culture? Unfortunately we are still continuing this futile pursuit.

Memory is Time frozen in the human mind, and epics are likewise History frozen in the collective thought of the peoples, a Racial Memory. Exactly like human memory is essential for the growth of an individual, the value system from the epics is essential for a Nation to protect itself from the self-destructive tendencies and predators and to grow continually from aeon to aeon.

What is required is to understand the Dharma behind and not drag the epic characters into our present day mental mould. This is what CPB and the missionaries did, asking questions, gaining superficial information, distort, and pump disinformation through their schools, poisoning the young Minds.

Greeks, Romans, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. have all flourished for short periods, but vanished due to non-creation of a philosophical backing to their moulds of Life, Language and Literature. We have therefore to understand that to continue our culture we have to protect our value system, propagate our epics through generations. If we fail in doing this, history will not forgive us. Our Languages alone are the means for such transmission of our culture. Tampering with them or destroying them had been their main aim, be it a Macaulay or a CPB. It was not service that CPB wanted to do; it was downright destruction of Telugu.

Our sacred duty today is therefore to rejuvenate all Indian languages and even dialects.

C P Brown: Palm Leaf Manuscripts

13. PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPTS

All literature in India existed in palm leaf manuscripts for centuries and even millennia in cases. Telugu was already a well-developed language into which hundreds of great Sanskrit works were translated and written in palm leaf Mss. CPB said they would have been destroyed but for his collecting them, and the biographers concur with him The fact that they were venerated, kept in Puja rooms, and not allowed to be otherwise disrespectfully dealt with is common knowledge. Mahabharatam for instance was translated over 800 years prior to arrival of CPB. Srinadha wrote 400 years earlier. Their Mss were in existence for centuries and were read in yearly congregations so that even the common people could appreciate them. These facts ought to have been brought to the notice of the readers of the biography before making 'shameful' statements that the literature would have died, or the manuscripts would have been eaten away by white ants. These ideas are a distortion of the truth and insult the people who preserved them for centuries.

The condition of Andhra from 1600AD to 1800A D had been one of tremendous strife as the Vijayanagar Empire crumbled, but the society did not sink into an abyss of ignorance as presented by CPB. The evidence is the existence of a large number of libraries, and the very fact that he could collect over 600 manuscripts. There were authors who could flourish in that region when CPB pompously pronounced his judgement that the literature was dying.

Manuscript collection is not a novel activity for the colonialists. It was not known, nor will it ever be known as to why thousands of manuscripts were collected and taken to London. It was a criminal loot of sorts. Wherever they could get, numerous copies of the same works were taken and shelved away in corridors of offices. How many were destroyed surreptitiously or thrown in the seas will never be known. It was one way by which the British destroyed our treasures of knowledge. In a way they did what the Muslims did Destruction, but in a clandestine manner.
We know now that Education in India was universal and every Village / Town had schools as ascertained by the census by Collectors in Madras / Bengal / Bombay Presidencies in 1821. One of the ingenious ways of denying access to knowledge was by buying off, whatever manuscripts were available! Two birds at a shot! Poverty made people sell and the British authority helped the acquisition. It is time we investigate at a national level the motive behind this 'Collection Spree' of the British, and claim all of them back. The UNESCO should be approached for this purpose.

We are made to think that the manuscripts have been saved from getting eaten by white ants as if the owners who bought, or got copied by paying to scribes did not know where and how to maintain them. And these CPBs were talking to a nation whose paintings on walls of caves are preserved for over 2000 years! And whose manuscriptsare still available. If people knew what the British were doing with them, may be they would have hidden them somewhere as was done during the Muslim invasions. But the pity is there was no one watching these depredations of collectors and many merrily participated in the collection melas.

The idea of destroying the manuscripts is not more preposterous than carrying thousands of manuscripts to London. In the first place why carry them to London? What exactly were their motives? Were there Sanskrit scholars or multi linguists in London, in 1830s to decipher them? Who is funding the studies? That CPB was asked to take back to India a collection, bought by East India Company from Dr Leydon and lying in the corridors of India house is a case in point.

A word about them straight from the horse’s mouth: -
“This collection was discovered in the India House Library by Mr. Charles Philip Brown, of the Madras Civil Service, in 1837. The Manuscripts comprising it are mainly in the Telugu, Tamil, and Canarese characters, and had lain in the library many years unexamined and unnoticed due to the want of scholars in England, learned in the languages current in Southern India. Mr. Brown formed catalogues and at his suggestion, the whole store was transferred in 1844, on the application of the Madras Literary the collection was chiefly made by Dr. Leyden, whose Manuscripts the Company had purchased at his death”. (D. F. Carmichael). [Dr. WILSON requested CPB, who was on leave, to catalogue them and not Discovered by CPB].

That CPB did a great service to the ANDHRAS turns out to be a lie because Dr Leydon collected MORE SANSKRIT works well before 1811, 30 years before CPB. Leydon Ji also collected 634-Telugu / Canarese mss as against 1134 of CPB. Overall his collection is about the same number as that of CPB!

They all rotted in various verandahs to the eternal shame of CPB. Why do the biographers not try to find out how much Leydon spent and how much he got from the EIC? Why did not Bangorey make or collect a list of all the manuscripts given by CPB so that we could know what are they, and what motive was there for their collection? Is it not a basic thing to do in a research of this type?

Dr Rai of BHU writes: in Bharatiya Prajna Sep 4,2004
“The concept that the British tampered with our Dharma Sastras has also to be looked into.” I think some devoted group of even five scholars can do it by going through the publications by Westerners in late 19thc century. There are thousands of original Palm leaf books lying in UK, in a totally neglected condition, which should be brought back and studied. I believe that such palm leaf originals are in 40 countries!!

On 5 Feb 2005, a news item on manuscripts says, “In Bihar and Orissa, in 5 days 7,00,000 or seven-lakhs manuscripts have been found.” Poor white ants couldn’t trace them! A national commission is working to piece together the country’s unknown, inaccessible and intellectual heritage .The point to note here is but for the wisdom of the people not selling away to the prowling British and their agents, these manuscripts would have been rotting in corridors of IOLs or dumped in the sea.

Dr. Bezwada Gopala Reddy writes a free verse on white ants eating manuscripts! It is such picturisation of manuscript holders as moribund peoples that I object to because this results in the present generation carrying poor and false image of their forefathers, whose deep love for knowledge is belittled. It makes them lose whatever self-esteem is left after 2 centuries of Colonial Rule. This is precisely the aim of the colonialist, which is to rob you of your pride in your Past, and that of the communist to whom all Past in feudalism.

Rao could not have missed the book Good Old days of John Company in which we find: "On the 4th May 1799 Seringapatam was taken by assault. Tippoo Sultan fell in the battle; two of his sons and many of the principal Sirdars falling into British hands as prisoners. A very copious and curious library was found in the fortress of Seringapatam; the books were in chests, each having its particular wrapper, and generally in good preservation. Some were very richly adorned and illuminated, in style of old Missals found in monasteries. The collection was very large, and consisted of thousands of volumes, and must have proved a very great acquisition to Europe of oriental history and literature".

Notice that even in an intense war condition, how thousands of books were wrapped and put in boxes, saving them from getting damaged. Rao doesn’t want even to quote this significant Para lest the reader knows the Truth. Is it difficult to imagine the effort that had gone into to save them?, and infer the tremendous love for literature etc? Incidentally where are these books now? Why is it the Universities are silent when such information comes to light?

Final Fate of the Manuscripts

Bangorey calls the library of manuscripts a living monument! Ironically it is one such monument. In their craze for collection of Mss on one pretext or other a total of 5751 manuscripts were dumped in GOML. They were lying in the verandas of the library at Madras and later transferred to the Director of Public Instructions, who put them in a go down in his office compound in Nungambakkam; Look at their fate, further.
Rev. T. Foulkes, chaplain of Vepery in Aug. 1867, reported to the government on the damaged condition in which the manuscripts were stored. CPB left in 1854 only. Where did he dump them? Why are this question and an answer to it not raised by Bangorey? What was CPB doing or had done to preserve them? After knowing all this tamasha, how can the authors say the literature was saved by this collection. See the Tamasha further?

1. The Manuscripts were removed from the Director's compound to the new Presidency College.
2. From there they have been shifted to the Government Secretarial Buildings.
3. Again in 1896 the manuscriptsLibrary appears to have been shifted to the compound of the Museum Building in Egmore.
4. In 1939 it was again shifted and is now housed in the Madras University Library buildings where these are kept.

It can be seen therefore instead of say 600 owners in different places looking after their own books, the whole lot got centralised by indifferent WHITE people saving them from WHITE ants, who have no love for them since they do not belong to them. And we call this collection craze a literary service.

Cost of collection - a great fib

Let us now see another fact from the letters from Cuddapah. Krishna Reddy had been accounting for every fraction of a rupee received during 1828 – 1838 followed by Subbanna till 1850. There was NO MENTION OF ANY MONEY GIVEN AGAINST ANY MSS TO ANY INDIVIDUAL. How then can the biographers mislead the people with such preposterous statements that CPB spent all his money on books and their procurement etc?

Unfortunately for the biographers, there is some internal evidence to call this bluff. In one letter CPB himself says that he was buying the books at very low rates, at another place he says he may give if need be 10Rs for a book, supposed to be rare. At another place wholesale purchase of a set of 342 Nos. at 230Rs. was mentioned. Borrowing, copying and returning was also in practice. Above all Taylor stated in unambiguous terms that CPB plundered by putting a large number of books collected by Mackenzie in his own name. If all these are properly looked into, it can be seen that CPB’s figures are pure fiction.

C P Brown: British Legacy

12. THE LEGACY OF BRITISH VALUE SYSTEM

As you sow, so you Reap.

We have seen India and Briton over the ages and the Andhras in that picture. We have also seen how the clash of civilisations resulted in turmoil, after the advent of colonialism, a new type of war, is on now -a Psy war. A number of civilisations have been wiped out either by force or through modifications beyond reasonable recognition when two groups of peoples come together and clashes ensue.

A divine experiment seems to have been started by Iswara, from 1800 A.D. with Asuric human beings arriving on this sacred soil of the Indo Gangetic plain. As always Indians watched without a violent reaction in the beginning, reacted with the maximum force later, and got back into a stable mode. The war seems to have ended in 1947. But the peace now is worse than an open war. They call it political, but this is anything but political. This is locking together of two forces, hiding behind masks, a fight to finish – the Western Colonial values through so-called secularists and the Indian HINDU Culture of Sanatana Dharma.

The motives, value systems of the incoming mass of human waves from England, which are now entrenched as secularists, are to be seen to know where we will end up.

A typical British Soldier in 1800 - A captain in garrison requires about thirty servants. Cost monthly 113 rupees .In the field he will want thirty porters (koolees), more.
" Cadets are boys of sixteen and seventeen, and most of them raw from school". As cadets arrived, palankeens were supplied to carry them off, from the taverns, and other temptations of the metropolis.

Kicking and abusing one's wife, was a military crime, and tried by court martial.
On the 6th June 1814 Captain Charles White, of the 66th Foot, was indicted "for conduct, in shamefully abusing, cruelly beating, kicking and ill using his wife, & c.
Cornwallis Army. “…Very inferior quality especially as regards the 6,000 Europeans of the Company’s army, the riff-raff of the London streets and the gleanings of the jails, officered by ruined youths or greedy seekers for money”. (A Constitutional history of India by A.B. Keith; 1937 edition; Page – 104).

Page 8: the brethren of the English merchant were the Africans whom he kidnapped for slavery in America, or the American Indians whom he stripped of their lands, or the Indian craftsmen from whom he bought muslins and silks at starvation prices.

Page 10: “The merchants were now rulers. Thus, being ‘favourably placed in relation to the individual producer, , to dictate terms favourably to himself’, the company was now ‘able to throw the sword into the scales to secure a bargain which abandoned all pretence of equality of exchange.’
Page 10: The policy of the Company was established to extract from the Indian producers as much as possible, and to give them in return nothing…” (The Rise and Fall of the East India Company by Ramkrishna Mukherjee, Berlin, 1958. Page – 301).

Page 11: “The conduct of the company’s servants, …… furnishes one of the most remarkable instances upon record, of the power of interest to extinguish all sense of justice, and even of shame”.

Page 12: “At Tranquebar, H. Meyer, Esq., aged sixty-four, to Miss Casina Couperas, a young lady of sixteen, after a courtship of five years”. (Late 18th Century notice in Bombay newspaper as quoted by Hilton Brown in ‘The Sahibs’, London, 1948. Page – 146).

Page 13. Drunkenness, gambling and profane swearing were almost universally practised. The public journals testify to the absence of “decency and propriety of behaviour” in social life”.
Page 13. “Nearly all the unmarried Europeans – lived in acknowledged concubinage with native women.

Page 14. “The chaplains who had been sent out in the latter part of the eighteenth century were, with few exceptions, men who, if they did not disgrace their religion by their immorality, degraded it by the worldliness of their lives.

Page 14. One chaplain, Mr. Blanshard, after a service of little more than twenty years, carried home a fortune of 50,000 pounds;( 25crores of rupees in today’s value) that another, Mr. Johnson, after thirteen years’ service, took with him from Calcutta 35,000 pounds,( 17.5crores of Rs); and that a third, Mr. Owen, at the end of ten years, had amassed 25,000” pounds,( 12.5crores of Rs). (Lives of Indian Officers by Sir J.W. Kaye. London, 1904 Page – 499)

Page 15. ‘Some account of our wicked chaplains. Out of nine (the full complement), four are grossly immoral characters, and two more have neither religion nor learning’. (Ibidem. Page – 500)

Page 17. “The generality of Europeans in Calcutta kept slave boys. Slavery was a recognized institution, An advertisement, taken from a Calcutta paper of 1781, shows, the trade was openly carried on even by persons holding holy orders: - “To be sold by private sale; Two Coffee boys, who play remarkably well on the French horn; about eighteen years of age; belonging a Portuguese Padrie lately deceased. For particulars enquire of the Vicar of the Portuguese Church”.

Page 18. “Sir William Jones, in a charge to the Grand Jury at Calcutta, in 1785, described the miseries of slavery in metropolis of British India – “I am assured, hold on my belief, that the condition of slaves within our jurisdiction is, beyond imagination, deplorable; and that cruelties are daily practised on them, chiefly on those of the tenderest age and the weaker sex, which, if it would not give me pain to repeat and you to hear, yet for the honour of human nature I should forbear to particularise… … … … … … … … Hardly a man or woman exists in a corner of this populous town, who hath not at least one slave child either purchased at a trifling price, or saved perhaps from a death that might have been fortunate, for a life that seldom fails of being miserable. Many of you, have seen large boats filled with children, coming down the river for open sale at Calcutta. Nor can you be ignorant that most of them were stolen from their parents, or bought, perhaps, for a measure of rice in a time of scarcity”.
“One hundred and 10 servants to wait upon a family of 4 people. Oh monstrous! And yet we are economists…” (The Sahibs. London, 1948. Page – 211)

Muslims were paragons of virtue compared to the scum.
India was gaining back its peace after lots of wars with the Muslims, who were not as cultureless, as crude, and as valueless as these hordes. In their own way, Samarkhand, Bokhara, Tashkent, Baghdad, before and after Islam were also repositories of ancient cultures. Going to pre Islamic Middle East, after all Buddhism and may be Hinduism were spreading culture in those lands.

Masks supplied by Eugene O’Neil
In a short time the white sahibs changed their faces, some wore masks of intellectuality and mingled with our society as earnest students, reformers, philosophers, manuscript gatherers, pundits etc. and stabbed the nation in the back. Created a lot of Brown sahibs and left with the loot.

Now the war is on with the masked colonialist continuing his presence in India with much more sophisticated IT, and Media bought for a consideration, masqua radians as a secularist.

C P Brown: Cultural Clash

10. CLASH OF CULTURES

Western Culture
Let us take a look at the WESTERN society, the wealthiest, the strongest, and the most loquacious; That society consists of:
20% Single parents,
40 % Divorcees,
30% alcoholics

It abounds in Juvenile delinquency, same sex marriages, drug addiction, Aids, paedophiles, lesbianism, Euthanasia, pornographic literature, Blue films. They do not let us know that 80% churches are closed most of the year, not even 1 in 10000 people attend a church even on Sundays.
Let us face facts. Is this picture presented in their media? In their pictures? By their Converting Christian Chaplains? On the other hand there is not one western media that doesn’t keep denigrating India day in and day out, on some issue or other. Economically, the ENTIRE WEST is propped up by three industries – WEAPONS, Automobile and consumer goods and two driving forces SEX and food. For example the entire Income of Scotland is from sale of Whisky!! The ‘purpose’ of life is not a concept that crosses a single western mind.

Indian culture
From an Indian view point that type of competitive life, living on the dead carcasses of millions of Red Indians or Vietnamese or Iraqis is NOT WORTH LIVING. Breeding, killing and eating a millions cows / hen / sheep daily is abhorable. It is a waste of life. Soon the LIFE FORCE will destroy such civilisations as it has destroyed the Greek, Roman, Persian, Babylonian civilisations.

India teaches that the purpose of Life is to uphold DHARMA, and the main planks for living are Sarva Loka Hitattvam; Sarva bhuta Samatvam. As Aurobindo said India is the only country, which directed the entire human energy towards the aim of seeing and achieving divinity in this life. Thousands of books, monuments, arts, daily life, rituals, music, painting, sculpture, even clothes and ornaments, show a grand movement towards peace, and through peace intellectual scaling of heights in thought and finally Jeevan Mukti, through the four Purusharthas.

But due to the injection and infection of an ephemeral value system of the west a national amnesia has come over us .We are in a coma as a nation, which is now of our own making. We have to get out of the coma and be awake to the beckoning of Vivekananda / Aurobindo / Tilak / Bose, not to speak of all the Udghosha of the Upanishads.

The clash
A part of this waking up is to throw out all those poisonous concepts spread by Macaulay at a national level and CPB at a regional level in Andhra. CPB spread his own type of poison – Brahmins abhor Jangams hinting that; Brahmins excommunicated Vemana, suppressed Vemana, held tight their palm leafs, did not even know how to save their books!

Our Weapon is our culture

Aurobindo states on Sanskrit as the vehicle of our culture, (which is equally applicable to Telugu for Andhras and otherlanguages for their states). Indian scholarships have one advantage an intimate feeling of the language, which the European cannot hope to possess. For a European, Sanskrit words are dead counters while to the Hindu they are living things, the very soul of whose temperament he understands and whose possibilities he can judge to a hair. Lack of a sturdy independence, which makes us over-ready to defer to European authority, is today the curse of the nation? How very true when we see this statement in connection with CPB, and his nonsensical utterances.

We are at a cross roads as a nation. What is going to be our choice of Literary effulgence for the future generations a Potana or Tikkana or Nannaya or a Sri, Sri, Arudra and Bangorey. Are we going the CPB way downgrading our literary works and values and achievements? That is the clash / the fight / the argument.