Colonial education’s burden fell on native informers who refined local dialects
Evidence
After this general injunction Macaulay adds: “To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of this country… ” That would be the White Man’s burden, carried, like the rest of his luggage on his colonial conquest, by a native, though this time by a native informer. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 735
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the ‘native informer’ theme in Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak, cited just above in the footnote.