a short note on macauley minutes
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Lord Macaulay, a Law member of Viceroys’ Executive Council arrived in India on June 10, 1834. He was appointed the Chairman of the General Committee of Public Instruction by William Bentinck, Governor-General of India. Also, he was a great scholar, a successful writer, and an eloquent speaker. He came to India with the strong belief that the English language and culture was supreme in the globe. When he arrived in India, there was a big controversy between Anglicist and Classicist parties regarding the nature of teaching education to Indian people. Also about the amount sanctioned by the East Indian Company for education. As a result, on February 2nd, 1835, he wrote a minute under his capacity for educating the Indians keeping aside the views of classicists or orientalists. This minute is popularly famous as Lord Macaulay’s Minute of 1835.
Lord Macaulay’s Minute of 1835 was considered a document of great historical value in education which had its effect on the educational policy in India right down to the present times.
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