On the suggestion of Lord Macaulay, Lord William Bentick started providing western education in India. Main objective of western education was to completely destroy Indian culture and civilization and to generate such a class of youth who were Indians by birth, blood and creed, but who had the thoughts and mentality like the British. The British English succeeded in achieving their objective, as the educated Indians started keeping a distance from their own culture and started glorifying western culture and education.
But it had a good effect also on the Indians. Indian youth began to study the west-en literature and understand it. The educated Indians could get knowledge about American freedom movement, the revolution of France, the struggle against foreign governance in Italy and the Irish freedom revolution, etc. All this could become possible because Indian youth could read and understand English language and literature.
Educated Indians began to participate in political and social movements. Their desire of independence and democratic values increased. They could understand the conspiracy of British governance. And hence, they began to fight for their independence and for their rights. They reacted against the British in their own language. So, it can be said that western education proved to be a boon for Indian independence movement.
