Climax of the Controversy Role of Lord T.B. Macaulay in the Educational History of India

Abstract

The study provides in detail the educational policy of Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay in India. Education in India, after the advent of Britishers, is the legacy commercial cum political, domination of England on India and as such the policy of education during the British period was in evolved to get more gains from trade and commerce and to strengthen the political grip on Indians at large. The study of History of Education in India in its correct prospective is highly important when we talk about the ills of present system- which the direct legacy of British Rule in India. For this purpose the investigator used some important primary and secondary sources.
Lord T.B. Macaulay came to India during the period of Anglicist-Orientalist Controversy and with the help of Lord William Bentick; Macaulay presented his minute on Feb. 2, 1835. Macaulay criticized the Indian languages and cracked many jokes on Indian sciences, astronomy etc. He ended the controversy and laid the foundation of modern education system in India.