describe Macaulay view on education in India. give any five examples
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Thomas Babington Macaulay was born in Leicestershire, England, on 25 October 1800, the son of Zachary Macaulay, a former governor of the colony of Sierra Leone and anti-slavery activist.[2] His mother was Selina Mills, a pupil of the great British moralist, Hannah More.
Elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1830 as a member of the reformist Whig party, Macaulay was named in 1834 as an inaugural member of a governing Supreme Council of India.[2] Macaulay spent the next four years in India, where he devoted his efforts to reforming the Indian criminal code, putting the British and natives on an equal legal footing, and to establishing an educational system based upon the British model, which involved introducing Indians to European ideas from the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.
Macaulay held western culture in high esteem, and was dismissive of the existent Indian culture, which he perceived as stagnant and something which had fallen well behind mainstream European scientific and philosophical thought. He saw his undertaking as a "civilising mission":