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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 taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. "
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism - Page 91
by Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 224 pages
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Indian Problems in Religion, Education, Politics

Henry Whitehead - Education - 1924 - 354 pages
...present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions we govern ; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects...
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My Working Life

George Sydenham Clarke Baron Sydenham of Combe - Great Britain - 1927 - 520 pages
...must 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 taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect." The needs of the Government, not the uplifting and moral strengthening...
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Unhappy India

Lajpat Rai (Lala) - India - 1928 - 644 pages
...present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions we govern; a class of persons Indian in blood and colour but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect." The Rt. Hon. Charles Grant, whom we have already quoted, wanted...
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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
...in 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 in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect'. The nucleus of such a class seemed already to be...
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Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

Jigna Desai - Performing Arts - 2004 - 294 pages
...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 taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830

Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 332 pages
...himself would argue, '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 taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect' (Macaulay, p. 249). This was, clearly, the complete inversion...
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Race, Resistance, and the Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa

Timothy H. Parsons - History - 2004 - 339 pages
...they set out to create an anglicized elite that, in the words of Thomas Babington Macaulay would be "a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and intellect."12 The reformers' English-language universities succeeded in producing...
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for ...

Niall Ferguson - History - 2004 - 400 pages
...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 taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. By 1838 there were forty English-based seminaries under the...
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In Defense of Empires

Deepak Lal - History - 2004 - 58 pages
...English-educated native middle 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 taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."47 He also foresaw China 8.5 5.2 4.1 France 14.3 7.4 5.2 UK...
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Relocating Britishness

Stephen Caunce - History - 2004 - 294 pages
...Education' is exemplary in its tone and assumptions. Referring to India, Macaulay set out an ambition to create 'a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, opinion, in morals and in intellect', and invoked the authority of orientalists to support the view...
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