The picture says it all.
I do not know how authentic the picture is.... I got this image forwarded from an old friend (who must have got it from somewhere and so on).
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/hinduism/macaulay.html basically says that the quotation is made up.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
India in 1835
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It amazes me that we qualified and professional people all buy in to what ever we read on the internet, and never perform our own research.
The source is often cited as The Awakening Ray, Vol. 4 No. 5, The Gnostic Centre Reproduced in Niti issue of April, 2002 at p. 10 a periodic publication of Bharat Vikas Parishad, Delhi.
It is a general misconception that this is a part of Lord McCauley’s speech to British Parliament because Lord McCauley arrived in India on 10th June 1834 and returned to England in early 1838. If in 1835 he was in India then how could he have delivered a speech in the British Parliament. Let me also add that he arrived in India by a 3 month long journey by ship so there is no chance that the Lord made a quick visit to England for delivering this speech.
I also found this interesting.
A dubious quotation, a controversial reputation: the merits of Lord Macaulay
Koenraad Elst discovers through a wrong quotation attributed to Lord Macaulay how right the anglicizer of Indian culture was, or at least how right his intentions were, subjectively.
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/a.../macaulay.html
also
http://www.tamilnation.org/culture/macaulay.htm
Here's a question for you it's 2008, what does a statement made in 1835 have to do with immigration into the USA? as posted on immigrationvoice.org.
For example 27th Oct 1838 the Missouri Governor (LW Boggs) issued extermination order against Mormons allowing for Mormons to be shot on sight. But Mitt Romney is safe to campaign there because the order was rescinded on 25th June 1976
It's 2008 people
I truely believe that the statements he made are true. Read Wikipedia about Macaulay..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babbington_Macaulay
"he was instrumental in creating the foundations of bilingual colonial India"..
These lines give a good foundation of his intent towards india..
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