Question

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

Answer 1

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Answer 2

James Mill and Thomas Macaulay criticised the Orientalists. Mill advocated that Western education should be imparted to Indians as it was scientific, practical and useful. According to him, the government should try to provide scientific and technical education to Indians rather than teaching them the literature and poetry of the East.

Macaulay was of the opinion that ‘a single shelf of the European library was worth the whole native literature of Asia and Arabia’. He believed that Indians would be able to read the great literatures produced in the world if they learn the English language. He further advocated that the British had the responsibility of civilising the natives. This could be done by imparting Western education to them.