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Abstract:- There was a network of education centres like Pathshalas, Tols, Madarasas, and Maktabs in India before coming the British. The British, who had come as traders and had become rulers and administrators, had influenced the economic, political and educational systems of the country. Although their main purpose to come India was to get more and more profit through trading with India. But they changed their aim to see deteriorated political situation of India. They became virtual ruler of India gradually. But it was not so easy to control and manage over India without changing her social, cultural and educational system. First of all they paid their attention on to create a new education system .The education system, introduced in India, by the British, based on the doctrine of Macaulay (1835) became a means of colonization. Essentially, it wiped off the faith of Indians in their own culture and changed the basic philosophy of Indian people against the Indian nature and outlook. Education could have played a major role in encouraging social mobility, eliminating superstition from socio-cultural sphere, increasing productivity and uplifting the status of women and tribal segment of India. However, the British rule used education as an instrument of colonization and converting the Indian intelligentsia into government clerks.