"It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England."
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education (2 February 1835)
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