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Macaulay's Minute Revisited: Colonial Language Policy in Nineteenth-century India
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The authors examines a crucial episode in the history of language policy in British colonial education: the Orientalist-Anglicist controversy of the 1830s over the content and medium of government education in India.Abstract:
This paper examines a crucial episode in the history of language policy in British colonial education: the Orientalist–Anglicist controversy of the 1830s over the content and medium of government education in India. The bitter dispute over colonial language-in-education policy during this period raised fundamental questions about the roles and status of the English language and the Indian vernacular and classical languages in the diffusion of Western knowledge and ideas on the subcontinent. At the heart of many accounts of the controversy, not least those of a polemical nature, is Thomas Babington Macaulay's famous Minute of 1835, which advocated the creation of a class of anglicised Indians who would serve as cultural intermediaries between the British and their Indian subjects. This paper reassesses Macaulay's influence on British language policy in 19th century India. It begins by examining the background to the Orientalist–Anglicist dispute in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and then moves on ...read more
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Some Aspects of Indian Education Past and Present . By Sir Philip Hartog University of London Institute of Education, Studies and Reports No: vii, pp. 109. Oxford University Press, 1939. 3s. 6d.
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The british debate over the medium of instruction in indian education, 1823—64
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