Question

who were called anglicts?

Answer 1

Anglicists

The Anglicists held a view of non-European societies opposite to that of the scholars and administrators known as Orientalists. They believed that non-European societies had little to teach Europeans about civilization, and that it was better to teach "natives" about European culture and civilization than about their own civilizations. Anglicists were influenced by the philosophy of utilitarianism espoused by James Mill (the father of John Stuart Mill). Mill wrote a two-volume History of India (1818), a manual for colonial administrators to read before going to India, without ever having visited the place himself. In general, Anglicists called for reforms in the colonial government of India and of Indian society; they also called for English to replace Persian as the language of higher education and administration in India, to the dismay of Orientalists. The Anglicists won the debate when the supreme council of the East India Company accepted the argument of Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1835 "Minute on Indian Education," which proclaimed, "We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."