Macaulay-Bpb

Thomas Macaulay is most famous for having introduced the English language as a medium for learning in India creating a class of westernized Indians who are sometimes derisively referred to as ‘Macaulay''s children''. Was this an act of cultural imperialism or a modernizing move far before its time? This is the first biography of this vastly influential figure for the general reader giving a vivid sense of a brilliant eccentric contradictory man and his complex times. Tracing Macaulay''s fascinating journey Zareer Masani allows the reader to glimpse into what it felt like to be at the centre of power in a global empire ruling over hundreds of millions of Indian subjects and shaping the destiny of a subcontinent.