Lord Macaulay's Speech on Indian Education

  Why is Lord Macaulay famous for?

Thomas Babington, better known as Lord Macaulay, is the man who brought the English language and British education to India. In 1835, he proposed that English be taught instead of Arabic, Sanskrit, and Persian in colonial schools in India. Lord Macaulay is credited with introducing the British education system to India.






"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 selfesteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation". 

                                    -Lord Macaulay's Address to the British Parliament on 2nd Feb 1835


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