I say without fear of my figures being successfully challenged that India today is more illiterate than it was before a fifty or hundred years ago, a… - Mahatma Gandhi

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I say without fear of my figures being successfully challenged that India today is more illiterate than it was before a fifty or hundred years ago, and so is Burma, because the British administrators when they came to India, instead of taking hold of things as they were, began to root them out. They scratched the soil and began to look at the root and left the root like that and the beautiful tree perished.