...most disadvantageous conditions. From this University alone more than 1,200 graduates have gone forth, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. Ladies, we have as yet no girl graduates iu Madras ; but I believe we shall see them there before long,...

...climbing plant and propping tree." Lord Macaulay pleaded for higher education in these terms: — "We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters...blood and colour, but English in taste; in opinions, words and intellect." It must be confessed that the igth century is sinking below the horizon without...

...Observations by Lord , . , , Macaulay and Sir Charle8 class who may be interpreters between us Trevelyan. ^^ ^ millions whom we govern ; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste and opinions, in morals and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the Vernacular Dialects...

...must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom govern — a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular...

...a false start to Western education in India. The objects, as he denned them, were these : " We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters...taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect." The needs of the Government, not the uplifting and moral strengthening of the Indian peoples, were...

...We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions we govern; a class of persons Indian in blood and...in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect." The Rt. Hon. Charles Grant, whom we have already quoted, wanted to 'attach our subjects by affection,...

...most disadvantageous conditions. From this University alone more than 1,200 graduates have gone forth, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. Ladies, we have as yet no girl graduates iu Madras ; but I believe we shall see them there before long,...

...governmental representatives, of whom Lord Thomas Macaulay was the leading figure. Macaulay proposed creating "a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect" to interpret Western values and civilization to the masses of...

...abolitionist Zachary - spelt out explicitly what could be achieved this way in his famous Minute on Education: It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to...in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. By 1838 there were forty English-based seminaries under the control of the General Committee of Public...

...number of colonial administrators, 'We must at present do our best', Macaulay himself would argue, 'to form a class who may be interpreters between us...in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect' (Macaulay, p. 249). This was, clearly, the complete inversion of the approach taken by Hastings and...