Salaam
Not so beautiful, but gives a good insight into how colonialism works.
'I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen
one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen
in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I
do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we
break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and
cultural heritage and therefore, I propose that we replace her
old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think
that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will
lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become
what we want them, a truly dominated nation'.
Lord Macaulays address to the British Parliament on 2nd Feb 1835