In each culture, there are certain values which are not affected by time and place. Some religious and cultural faiths may be included in these values. For example, faith in God, love for truth and non-violence and the ideal of universal brotherhood and justice are the permanent values of many cultures of the world.
These values have come down to us through the ages and they have remained uninfluenced by time and place. Whereas against this, the culture of each country has certain values which are subject to time and place. In India, some such cultural values may be cited which bear the impact of history.
It is a matter of living memory of the present generation that after the Second World War (1939- 1945) great changes have occurred in many of our life values (in fact this is true of any country).
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For example, joint-family system is breaking down, undersirable changes have occurred in the attitude of the younger’s towards their elders, students do not show due respect to their teachers as students did twenty-five years ago, and the teachers also now care more for the increments in their salaries and other allowances than for teaching.
In any meeting of teachers, there is more talk of groupism, backbiting and salaries than of students’ welfare. Guardians do not respect teachers as they did before. Similarly, the relations between parents and children, sisters and brothers, husband and wife, masters and servants and between many other units of society have undergone great changes. Now we have begun to discard many old mores and modes and adopt more liberal attitudes. Thus, time and place have been changing many elements of culture.
It is to be noted that like the cultures of many countries of the world, some of the elements of Indian culture too, are age old and seemingly eternal. During the foreign rules in the country these eternal cultural values were always ignored in the educational system. Educational systems as obtained during the Muslim and British periods are an eloquent testimony to this.
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Many British documents clearly specify that their purpose was to ignore the Indian culture in the educational system with the view to inculcate in the Indians the values of the Western culture. For this, they introduced a particular system of education in the country. As a result, Indians began to lose faith and love for their own culture.