Macaulay : Pioneer of Indias Modernization

By:

Zareer Masani

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Random HouseSubject(s):

Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, -- Baron, -- 1800-1859. Colonial administrators -- India -- Biography. Colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- Biography. View all subjects

DDC classification:

954.031092 MAS-M

Summary: If youre an Indian reading this book in English, its probably because of Thomas Macaulay Thomas Macaulay is most famous for having introduced the English language as a medium for learning in India, creating a class of westernized Indians who are sometimes derisively referred to as Macaulays children. Was this an act of cultural imperialism or a modernizing move far before its time? This is the first biography of this vastly influential figure for the general reader, giving a vivid sense of a brilliant, eccentric, contradictory man and his complex times. Tracing Macaulays fascinating journey, Zareer Masani allows the reader to glimpse into what it felt like to be at the centre of power in a global empire, ruling over hundreds of millions of Indian subjects and shaping the destiny of a subcontinent.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	954.031092 MAS-M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB3395

If youre an Indian reading this book in English, its probably because of Thomas Macaulay Thomas Macaulay is most famous for having introduced the English language as a medium for learning in India, creating a class of westernized Indians who are sometimes derisively referred to as Macaulays children. Was this an act of cultural imperialism or a modernizing move far before its time? This is the first biography of this vastly influential figure for the general reader, giving a vivid sense of a brilliant, eccentric, contradictory man and his complex times. Tracing Macaulays fascinating journey, Zareer Masani allows the reader to glimpse into what it felt like to be at the centre of power in a global empire, ruling over hundreds of millions of Indian subjects and shaping the destiny of a subcontinent.

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