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Zareer Masani talks to Oliver Balch
Macaulay: Britain’s Liberal Imperialist
Winter Weekend 2015,
Thomas Macaulay is most famous for having introduced the English language as a medium for learning in India. Was this an act of cultural imperialism or a modernising move? Historian and biographer Masani gives an insight into how it felt to be at the centre of power in a global empire, ruling over millions of Indian subjects and shaping the destiny of a subcontinent.
