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"[Lord] Macaulay traveled from Madras to Ooty to meet Governor-General Bentick--a distance of 400 miles--on the shoulders of Indian men, and then back: Twelve bearers--six at a time--carried his palanquin down to Madras, as he reclined and read Theodore Hook's Love and Pride" 
"[Lord Thomas Babington] Macaulay was a brilliant mind, who had already written, at the age of eight, a convincing essay on the desirability of converting heathens to Christianity."
From #TheRulersGaze by Prof. @aravindasharma
From #TheRulersGaze by Prof. @aravindasharma
The native scholars, with hardly one exception, “have displayed a far greater respect for truth and and a far more manly and generous spirit than we are accustomed to even in Europe and America.”
~ F. Max Muller as quoted by @aravindasharma in #TheRulersGaze.
~ F. Max Muller as quoted by @aravindasharma in #TheRulersGaze.
