New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- While delivering the Ramnath Goenka Lecture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a ten-year pledge to root out the "colonial mindset." In ten years, he noted, it will be 200 years since Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay introduced English-medium education in India. According to Modi, "Macaulay's project was to reshape Indian thought by dismantling indigenous knowledge systems and enforcing colonial education," thereby creating Indians who were "Indian in appearance but British in thought." This, he argued, broke India's self-confidence and created a sense of inferiority (Indian Express, November 18, 2025).

Modi's remarks reflect the wider ideological thrust of the RSS and Hindutva nationalism. For decades, this ideo...