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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 tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. "
The Last Days of the Company: a Source Book of Indian History, 1818-1858 - Page 120
by George Anderson - 1921
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Address to Parliament on the Duties of Great Britain to India: In Respect of ...

Charles Hay Cameron - Education - 1853 - 220 pages
...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. To that...the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich 78 those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 10

1864 - 536 pages
...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. To that...dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with tenus of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles...
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A Sketch of the History of India from 1858 to 1918

Henry Dodwell - India - 1925 - 360 pages
...English would transform the Indian into an Englishman, and, as Macaulay said, create a 193 V class, " Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect." In spite of the development of psychology and the change in educational ideas, much of this seems to...
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Some Present-day Superstitions

Pramatha Nath Bose - India - 1927 - 280 pages
...converted and will continue to convert a small number of Indians into. in the words of Macaulay/'a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opini= ons, in morals, and in intellect," but ir can not make them as a body English in those qualities...
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David Hare

Peary Chand Mitra - Education - 1877 - 232 pages
...for the Indians" and set, as the ideal of education, the creation of a class of Indians who would be "Indian in blood and colour but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect." This school stood for English as the medium of education and it was strongly supported by the missionaries,...
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The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 9, War and Peace in an Age of ...

C. W. Crawley - History - 1965 - 778 pages
...Macaulay's words, '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...tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect'. The nucleus of such a class seemed already to be in existence in Bengal : moneyed Hindus living in...
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British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire

Nigel Leask - History - 2004 - 288 pages
...from Indian literature and culture legitimated the project of creating a class of Indian ' mimic men', 'Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect'.87 Indian and Englishman become, in relation to one another, 'either nobody at all, or oneself...
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Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations

Partha Mitter - Art - 1994 - 538 pages
...case of altruism, it was to form a class of 'interpreters between us and the millions we govern . . . [to] that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects . . . with terms of science borrowed from the [West] . . . and to render them ... fit vehicles for...
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Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World

Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler - History - 1997 - 488 pages
...conceive of nothing other than "a class of interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern — a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect"6 — in other words, a mimic man raised "through our English School," as a missionary educationist...
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Mahatma Jotirao Phooley: Father of the Indian Social Revolution

Dhananjay Keer - Biography & Autobiography - 1964 - 332 pages
...Bombay Guardian, 3 September 1852. 25. The Bombay Guardian, 24 September 1852. the emergence of "a class Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect." On October 12, 1836, Macaulay wrote to his father that "the effect of this education on the Hindoos...
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