New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- Sanjeev Sanyal, an economist and a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, spoke about the 'Macaulay mindset', asserting that generations of Indians have been conditioned to believe that civilisation and progress were brought to the subcontinent only by outsiders.

Sanyal emphasised that "Indian history is not what we have been taught to believe", and that people are led to feel that the Indian had "no agency in world history".

In an interview with ANI, Sanyal said the idea that Indians were passive recipients of history was deeply flawed and rooted in what he described as the "Macaulay mindset."

"To change the narrative of who Indians were historically, see, one of the things I've been trying to ...