What it says
Macaulay, who knew neither Sanskrit nor Arabic, wrote: ‘I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.’ Its aim he put plainly: ‘a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.’
What it proves
It is the founding text of colonial education in Bharat and states, in its author’s own words, the contempt for Indian learning behind it.
