1 History & Culture · 1.4.6 Education and press

1.4.6.1 Orientalist-Anglicist controversy and Macaulay's Minute 1835

The debate over whether the government should fund Indian classical learning or English education was settled in favour of English by Macaulay's Minute of 1835, which also gave the British the "class of interpreters" they wanted.

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Key terms

  • Orientalists
  • Anglicists
  • Charter Act 1813
  • Macaulay Minute
  • filtration theory
  • Rammohan Roy
  • Fort William College
  • English Education Act 1835

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