The purpose of placing Rai’s pamphlet before the readers in the context of the discussion at hand was to show that in 1919, that is, after close to 84 years of introduction of Macaulay’s education policy, the awareness of Bharat’s civilisational character and history was still alive, which brings Rai’s position closer to that of historians of his time, such as Radhakumud Mookerji, and others.
