Re: [nukkad] Lord Macaulay's Address To The British Parliament - February 2, 1835

["Rohit Mansukhlal" <>]

 Dear Venu :

This quotation of Macaulay is a HOAX
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It is not.
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Please read the text carefully. This is the language people may use in
closed door schemings and not one used by Politicians publicly.
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Secondly,  Was Macaulay a member of British Parliament in 1935 or just a
member of the Governing Council of East India Company?  I think he became MP
much later.
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You mean 1735 !! His official capacity and status is not relevant here.
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>  Oh! God! It is wonderful to hear that there was no beggers or thieves in
> India in the early 1800s. Good fairy tale.
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This is rubbish. India was at her filthiest low, thugees ( thugs ) and
pindharas were the lords. It was Willian Benttink who brought an end to
these murderous criminals. Spineless us could
do nothing.
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>  Apart from various internet sites, is there any source from which the
> authenticity of this quote can be verified?
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I have read enough on Macauly to quote the source. Give me sometime to fish
out the
page from hundred odd books on India in my personal collection. It could
take longer
if I read this passage in a book borrowed from a library. So far as my
memory goes,
it is from a book by a British author, but not cent percent sure.
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>  Don't quote Col. Athwale's article at Rediff as the 'authentic" source. A
> 173 year old speech must have some recorded existence prior to the birth of
> internet. Can somebody quote one?
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I don't search internet for information, I prefer to read from the printed
material. I will get
back as soon as I can. You and Guptaji are the seniors who do serious
discussion on
India's past, and that is a good incentive for me to take good trouble to
locate the source.
I have read extensively on the marathon efforts made by Macauly over a
period of three
years before he could convince his authorities to concede to his proposal of
initiating
the English education in India, but about that in next mail.

Rohit Zaveri


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