Thomas Babington Macaulay

Published on 24th December, 2016, on scroll.in. There is a wound that festers in the Hindutva heart. And it is attributed to Thomas Babington Macaulay. Macaulay was a British politician who in the 19th century played a big role in introducing English education to India at the cost of indigenous Sanskrit and Persian knowledge systems, because he saw India as primitive and chaotic, in need of civilising. But if the British in general and Macaulay in particular get blamed for colonising the Indian mind with English, the current problem seems to be more with the Americans. For some years now, the non resident Indian supporters ..