Macaulay’s education policy deliberately manufactured Anglophone Indian elites
Evidence
Declaring that ‘a single shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia,’ he produced the following year his notorious ‘Minute on Education.’ Luckier than Uvarov, his recommendations went into immediate effect. A thoroughly English educational system was to be introduced which, in Macaulay’s own ineffable words, would create ‘a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect.’ — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 361
Categorization
- DEFINE: The ‘mental miscegenation’ mechanism: colonial education as engineered assimilation that leaves race in place.
- XREF: Directly scaffolds the colonial psychology and racialized selfhood readings in the Islamophobia module; also echoes the Macaulay passage in Reluctant Fundamentalist territory on educated colonial subjects. — connects to: Anglicized Indian elites faced permanent subordination despite assimilation — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 367; British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5399; Colonial education sought to dominate chiefs morally through elite schooling (+1 more)
Related
- British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook. (similarity 0.89)
- Macaulay’s assimilationist formula captured the entire European colonial project, applied to Europe itself (similarity 0.80)
- Anglicized Indian elites faced permanent subordination despite assimilation (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook.
#corroborates(0.95) — , The Rod and the Child, 5399 - Colonial education sought to dominate chiefs morally through elite schooling
#expands(0.75)