...318. Who among the following through English education, wanted to create 'A class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in the intellect.' a. Lord Macaulay b. Sir Auckland c. Mr. Warden 49 d. William Bentinck 319. The development...

...Macaulay's famous Minute of 1835, calling for the primacy of English in Indian education and the creation of a "class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and intellect," (cited in Sharp 1965, 116), initially prevailed. However,...

...his Minute on Indian Education (1835) that "We must ... do our best to form a class who may be ... Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste,...to refine the vernacular dialects of the country. . . ." Several high Cambridge wranglers from our period played their different parts in this process...

..."Education Despatch" of 1854. During a debate on education for Indians, Macaulay spoke of creating "a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but...in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect (quoted in Mitter 2002, 234). In 1854, Wood stated that it was "the purpose of the British to share...

...Education' from 1835, where the latter envisages 'a class of interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern - a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect'.80 This 'mimic man' 'is the effect of the flawed colonial...

...1915; for Sri Lanka, Ruberu 1962; and for Pakistan, Rahman 1996a, Chapters 3 and 4, and 199 la, b. colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect." In Macaulay's view, India's native languages were "poor and rude" and the learning of the East was...