"Thomas B. Macaulay, the first Law Member of the Govemor-General’s Legislature, took up Grant’s ideas on English education, and was also a great admirer of Mill’s. In his notorious 1835 Minute on Indian Education, he maintained that Hinduism was based on “a literature admitted to be of small intrinsic value, … [one] that inculcates the most serious errors on the most important subjects … hardly reconcilable with reason, with morality … fruitful of monstrous superstitions.” Hindus had therefore been fed for millennia with a “false history, false astronomy, false medicine … in company with a false religion”"
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Danino, M., & Nahar, S. (1996). The invasion that never was (1st ed). Mother’s Institute of Research & Mira Aditi, Mysore, India.
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