Lord Macaulay, torch-bearer in the path of colonial progress, recommended the spread of Western learning through the medium of the English language. What emerged was a system of education with ultimate objective of securing servants for public administration, diverting young men and women from the study of oriental to occidental literature, and arousing in young hearts a passion for Western knowledge and culture.

This book provides an alternative in svarāja (self-rule) envisaged and through primary education imparted in the Bose Foundation School at Kāsī.