British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook.

Evidence

Its most famous sentence: “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 of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.” — , The Rod and the Child, 5399

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Macaulay’s better-known cultural supremacy rhetoric from his 1835 essay on literature. — connects to: Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism; Anglicized Indian elites faced permanent subordination despite assimilation — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 367; Macaulay’s education policy deliberately manufactured Anglophone Indian elites — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 361 (+1 more)

Related

• Macaulay’s education policy deliberately manufactured Anglophone Indian elites (similarity 0.89)
• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism (similarity 0.81)
• Anglicized Indian elites faced permanent subordination despite assimilation (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism #expands (0.80)