Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay,PC (25 October 1800– 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces.
Macaulay held political office as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. He played a major role in introducing English and western concepts to education in India. He supported the replacement of Persian by English as the official language, the use of English as the medium of instruction in all schools, and the training of English-speaking Indians as teachers.
In his view, Macaulay divided the world into civilised nations and barbarism, with Britain representing the high point of civilisation. In his Minute on Indian Education of February 1835, he asserted, "It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England". He was wedded to the Idea of Progress, especially in terms of the liberal freedoms. He opposed radicalism while idealising historic British culture and traditions.
"Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
"It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it."
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“Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular,” wrote the Whig historianLord Macaulay in 1824 ... When I asked Lord Vallance, ...
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He noted that substantial changes have been made to the education system introduced by Lord Macaulay, and the results of these changes will be positive.CM Sai remarked that the enthusiasm and ...
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The court has in turn asked the government for a response ... Three new laws will replace the penal code inherited from the British colonial era, which was drafted under Lord Macaulay from the 1830s and enacted in 1860 ... “It makes no sense ... Related ... .
...Herbert, moved into Marden Castle, a gothic turreted folly situated on a hill in Sir Walpole's country estate overlooking what the 19th century historian Lord Macaulay described as a 'garden of Eden'.
Years earlier, Lord Macaulay had already started the process of breaking down the subcontinent’s existing education system ... Lord Macaulay relished the idea of educating the Indian into “a class of ...
The Scottish Enlightenment will die on April 1st 2024, exactly 327 years, eight months and 24 days after the incident that provoked it ... He was reported, arrested and tried ... The great 19th Century historian Lord Macaulay famously wrote of the incident..
“What’s this room? I’ve forgotten my compass,” asks the journalist Liz Imbrie in the 1940 movie based on Philip Barry’s rollicking play, awed by the scale of the Lords’ home... colleague Macaulay Connor.
