The Macaulay Minute settled the Orientalist-Anglicist debate in favor of English-medium education.

Evidence

Macaulay’s 1835 Minute settled a debate within the colonial administration between the “Orientalists” — who argued that British-Indian education should operate in Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian, building on the existing Indian intellectual traditions — and the “Anglicists” — who argued that English-medium Western education was the path forward. Macaulay was emphatically Anglicist. He won. Bentinck accepted the Minute and issued the English Education Act of 1835, establishing English as the medium of instruction in the colonial educational system. — , The Rod and the Child, 5404