Question

why did James mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India ​

Answer 1

Explanation:

1 .they felt that knowledge of English would allow Indian to read some of the finest literature of the world has produced

2.it would make them aware of the development in western science and philosophy

3 teaching of English could thus be a way of civilizing people, changing the taste , value and culture

Answer 2

James Mill and Thomas Macaulay felt that knowledge of English would allow Indians to read some of the finest literature that the world had produced; it would make them aware of the developments in Western science and philosophy. The teaching of English could thus be a way of ‘civilising’ people, changing their tastes, values and culture. They also felt that the aim of education should be to teach what was useful and practical. So Indians should be made familiar with the scientific and technical advances that the West had made, rather than with the poetry and sacred literature of the ‘Orient’.