 | Alfred J. Lopez - Social Science - 2012 - 274 pages
...Parliament how he would reform Indian education so that a class of miscegenated persons would be created, "Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect" (Minute, par. 30). In 1899, it seems that Conrad teased some of the implications out of this concept... | |
 | Gönül Pultar - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 344 pages
...famous "Minute on Education" in 1835 helped devise "an Indian elite, junior allies in imperial progress: 'a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour but English in taste, in opinions, in moral and in intellect.' The elite, in turn would assist in guiding India to a better future" (qtd.... | |
 | Nira Wickramasinghe - History - 2006 - 396 pages
...the mimic men, the anglicised Indian or Ceylonese 'brown Englishmen' who, as Macaulay said, had to be 'Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect'. Those who wore Western dress belonged mainly to the urbanised, educated, English-speaking male elites.... | |
 | Kwame Botwe-Asamoah - Ghana - 2005 - 268 pages
...of such curriculum was noted in India where the British governor Macauly hoped "to create in India a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in moral and in intellect" (Ibid: 2). Giving his commencement speech at Fisk University in 1933, on "The... | |
 | Gaurav Gajanan Desai, Supriya Nair - History - 2005 - 686 pages
...Identities Thomas Babington Macaulay's attempt to anglicize the colonial Indian subject, to create "a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions," explicitly acknowledges the formidable capacity of the colonial apparatus and of education, in particular,... | |
 | Jagmohan - India - 2005 - 574 pages
...totally. In his well-known 'Minute' of 1835, Macaulay recorded: "We must have a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect." His imperial disdain and ignorance about the civilisations of the East is reflected in such observations... | |
 | Rama Gupta - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 188 pages
...Lord Macaulay said : "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,...in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect". He continued : "To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to... | |
 | Laura O'Connor - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 298 pages
...in creating a class of intermediaries: "to form a class of persons, who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons,...taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect." See reprint in Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tifflin, eds., The Post-Colonial Studies... | |
 | Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Vera Alexander - East Indian diaspora - 2006 - 308 pages
...selective Anglicisation, the British vision of creating "a class who may be the interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons,...colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, in intellect" (Sharp 116), began to take on solid contours when English was introduced as tertiary... | |
 | Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 520 pages
...As Macaulay says, this subculture in India would consist of '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 opinion, in morals and in intellect' (Sharp 1920: 1 16). These words have frequently been quoted with... | |
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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. 
