| Rama Gupta - 2006 - 188 Seiten
..."We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood...in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect". He continued : "To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to... | |
| Mark Sanders - 2006 - 148 Seiten
...'interpreters' anticipated by Thomas Babington Macaulay in his 'Minute on Indian Education' (1835): 'a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but...in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect' (quoted in CPR 268). There is a sense in which this intermediary class cannot quite inform; in which... | |
| Gisela Hermann-Brennecke, Wolf Kindermann - 2005 - 262 Seiten
...famous/infamous minute of 1835, Thomas Macaulay clearly stated his Government's intention to create "a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but...in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect" which would be "interpreters" between rulers and ruled (MACAULAY 1971: 190). So English was taught... | |
| Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Vera Alexander - 2006 - 308 Seiten
...Anglicisation, the British vision of creating "a class who may be the interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood...colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, in intellect" (Sharp 116), began to take on solid contours when English was introduced as tertiary... | |
| Sagarika Dutt - 2006 - 248 Seiten
...in India was to form a class who would be interpreters between the British rulers and the Indians, 'a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but...in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect' (Macaulay cited in Wolpert, 1993: 215). However, orientalists like Sir William Jones thought that Indians... | |
| Catherine Hall, Sonya O. Rose - 2006 - 33 Seiten
...preserved — and offered the equally famous opinion that 'we must at present do our best to form ... a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect'.12 Debates about citizenship and belonging in the nation-empire persisted into the 18405,... | |
| Beth A. Berkowitz - 2006 - 362 Seiten
...imperial "original"; such is the case in one Englishman's description of westernized Indians in 1835 as "a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."6 Roy, Bhabha, and others argue that copying is rarely simple, however — masquerade, passing,... | |
| Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru - 2006 - 520 Seiten
...this subculture in India would consist of 'a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect' (Sharp 1920: 1 16). These words have frequently been quoted with... | |
| Priya Jaikumar - 2006 - 338 Seiten
...created, in Macaulay's often quoted words, "a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect."23 A significant point of rupture in the practice of British imperialism... | |
| Kevin Ward - 2006 - 378 Seiten
...formally converted. Macaulay famously argued for an education system which would produce men who were 'Indian in blood and colour. But English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect'. Gauri Viswanathan has characterised this as 'a secular project to transform Indians into deracinated... | |
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