HIST 103 Lecture 3: Minute on_
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Here is the link for the reading: https://sourcebooks. fordham. edu/halsall/mod/1833macaulay-india. asp. Formerly, they had supported traditional muslim and hindu education and the publication of literature in the native learned tongues. Macaulay believed that western learning was not necessarily better, rather, was superior(cid:3248) over indian education, and that the only way to learn this western way of thinking and behaving was through english. Therefore, as he concludes his minute on, forcefully (my wording) assimilate all. A class of persons, indian in blood and colour, but english in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect . To sum up what i have said, i think it is clear that we are not fettered by the act of parliament of. 1813; that we are not fettered by any pledge expressed or implied; that we are free to employ our funds as we choose; that we ought to employ them in teaching what is best worth knowing; that.
