...other in Australasia. . . . 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...but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."59 A month later, on 7 March 1835, Governor-General William Bentinck issued an order supporting...

...should develop an English-educated indigenous cadre that would "form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class...but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."4 Within a generation, the British educational system in India had produced a relatively...

...wrote a report on education in which he advocated the creation of "a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class...but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."34 Nehru embodied Macaulay's vision, and as a result, India became, in the second half of...

...wrote a report on education in which he advocated the creation of "a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class...but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."34 Nehru embodied Macaulay's vision, and as a result, India became, in the second half of...

...in schools and colleges to create a class who could act as "interpreters between us and the millions we govern; a class of persons Indian in blood and...but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."23 COLONIAL Britain clearly wanted to construct India in its own image, as is evident in...

...society who could act as interpreters between the English and the non-English speaking Indian population: 'a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in dialect'.3 The social mission of English studies in India during the period of British colonial rule...

...India is succinctly summarized in Macaulay's oft-quoted words: "to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect" (Young 1935, 359). The Indian...

...Macaulay's famous minute setting out British policy in India as designed to produce natives who are "Indian in blood and colour" but "English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect".17 In Clearchus' case, the 16 See W. Jaeger, Diokles von Karystos. Die griechische M edizin...

...his 'Minute on Indian Education' of 1835, hoped that English education would produce Indians who were 'Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect', Aguilar's formulation suggests that the Jews had successfully realised such Anglicising...

...As Macaulay is known to have pointed out, English education aimed at producing "a class of people, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect". English thus became the "lingua franca" of the country, the most important medium for education,...