Macaulay : Colman Patrick Louis (1848-1890): ICS: Financial Secretary to Govt. of Bengal & Member of the Legislative Council: went to Peking 1885: obtained Chinese Govt. passports: organized political & scientific mission to Lhasa, to open up trade, when it was suddenly stopped, in 1886, in deference to Chinese susceptibilities: Acting Chief Secretary to the Bengal Govt.: died May 9, 1890: [Buckland] This Macaulay was a superior of Bankim Chandra
... Lives of Great Men and I was fascinated by his style. I asked him if I should read Macaulay. Then, as was usual with him, he smiled and replied, "Do not be anybody's slave, but be your own master. By reading Macaulay or any other writer you will never be like him. You will not be a Macaulay but a faint echo of Macaulay. You will but be a copy to be derided by the world, but never an original. Therefore ...
... warrant to arrest and immediately execute Velu Thampi Dalawa. The Dalawa was at Allepey when he received intimation of the conspiracy and immediately hurried to Cochin to meet the British Resident Major Macaulay who was a good friend. The Resident had already received evidence that Kunjunilam Pillai had a major hand in the murder of Raja Kesavadas and hence he, arming Velu Thampi with a small force of British... same was met with immediate discontent. The troops believed that this proposal was at the suggestion of the British and could immediately be resolved by the assassination of both, the Resident Major Macaulay as well as the Dalawa Velu Thampi. Velu Thampi fled to Cochin again to his friend, the Resident, as the Nairs marched to Trivandrum in a strong army of 10,000 sepoys and demanded of the Maharajah... discontent as it increased the dependence of Travancore on the British and also indebted it to the English Company. In spite of being fully aware of the financial crisis in Travancore, the Resident Major Macaulay pressed Velu Thampi for immediate payment of the large amount of tribute and the expenses of putting down the mutiny of the Nair troops. The Maharajah meanwhile wrote to the Madras government for ...
... The Inspiration of Paradise Lost II Milton, Macaulay and Sri Aurobindo I hope my introductory words have toned up the reader to an interest in Paradise Lost and in the difficult job I have taken on myself under the influence of the ardours and rigours of Milton's epic inspiration. But before I actually start, let me evoke two pictures in which... young man stood in a corner and with a firm low voice was reciting Paradise Lost, as if by its superb organised thunder he could quell that hullabaloo of the elements. This was Thomas Babington Macaulay going to India, destined to mould the educational policy of the foreign rulers there and to spread in our country the literature of his own, including Milton's epic. He was perhaps not altogether... Paradise Lost again: "Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou Deep, peace!" Said then the omnific Word: "your discord end!" 2 I do not know how and when exactly the discord around Macaulay ended. But even if it had continued for a full day, he could have gone on reciting the epic. For he knew the whole of it by heart. He once declared that if all the copies of this poem were destroyed ...
... more and more irreligious, egoistic, and self-seeking. This entire process became accentuated by three factors, which can be summed up in terms of influences emerging from Macaulay, Materialism and Mercantile barbarism. Macaulay had explicitly stated the purpose of the education system that was introduced under his initiative by the British in India, namely, to create a class Indian blood and colour... select few who were expected to imitate and imbibe the values of their colonial masters and percolate them down below. They were to be interpreters of western culture in India. *According to Macaulay, western knowledge was superior to Indian traditional learning in terms of its content and cultural context. *With a view to creating a social class which would be loyal to British rule, the... *Ancient system of education in India imparted knowledge through scriptures. However, Macaulay's system of education destroyed that system. It is unfortunate that the system of education of Macaulay is still continuing in some form or other. *Social and moral values are considerably eroded in India leading to an era of corruption and disruption of the rule of law. *In free India ...
... education since 1835 when Macaulay placed before India the aim of creating in the country a class of people that will be externally Indian but otherwise British. He had declared that all that was important in the Indian heritage could be contained only in one small shelf in a huge library of knowledge and wisdom derived from the West. It has been widely acknowledged that Macaulay has succeeded in the aim... development of the road map of educational development of India. We are multiplying schools, colleges, and universities, but all this expansion sub-serves more and more insistently those objectives which Macaulay had envisaged in 1835. Our entire employment system is tied up with the present scheme of schools, colleges and universities. Parents are naturally driven to that very scheme so as to educate their... authorities are preoccupied with^conduct and smooth running of the present system. Principals of the schools are occupied with maximum percentage of success of their students in the examinations set up by Macaulay. Many Vice-Chancellors congratulate themselves when they are able to conduct examinations on time. Councils of educational research are occupied with churning out text books (with annual fanfare of ...
... Great Men and I was fascinated by his style. I asked him if I should read Macaulay. Then, as was Page 207 usual with him he smiled and replied, 'Do not be anybody's slave, but your own master. By reading Macaulay or any other writer you will never be like him. You will not be a Macaulay but a faint echo of Macaulay. You will be but a copy to be derided by the world, but never an original ...
... haunting ghosts of Kipling and Macaulay pursuing it is fine in vision and expression and substance. Chesterton however exceeds his ghosts—he has something of the racer in him and not merely of the prancing cart-horses they were. If Chesterton is noble, grand style, epic (Chapman also)—it becomes difficult to deny these epithets to many others also. Even Kipling and Macaulay can put in a claim. What ...
... change the system of education and the system of society. Our system of education that is given to us by Macaulay allows you only Page 213 five alternatives : you can become a doctor, or an engineer or a lawyer, or a clerk, or else a teacher. I don't want you to be a lawyer because Macaulay, again, has decided that it is a duty of a lawyer to speak lies in defence of his clients. As for engineering ...
... of bureaucracy. His superior was a certain Macaulay, a hard working official, whose brains were tied together with red tape. The diligent mediocrity of this man was goaded to extra hours by flickering visions of a Lieutenant-Governorship, but Bankim, having no such high incentive, was careful to close his work at the strict office-hour. For this Macaulay took him severely to task. "It is natural enough" ...
... irreligious, egoistic, and self-seeking. This entire process became accentuated by three factors, which can be summed up in terms of influences emerging from Macaulay, Materialism and Mercantile barbarism. As is very well-known, Macaulay had explicitly stated the purpose of the education system that was introduced under his initiative by the British in India, namely, to create a "class Indian ...
... of This World satisfactory. I tried as far as possible to give the reader an account of what he would find in the book and not merely to use it as a peg on which to hang my own virtuosity a la Macaulay. I think at least that it should serve to indicate to all who care for such things that here is a book not to be missed. "You raise some interesting points in regard to 'expression' and 'silence' ...
... ideas. Amateur scholars from the "non academic world", especially those who challenge received wisdom, are seldom lionised. Sadly, Indian academics continue to parrot their Western mentors even today. Macaulay might have gone but his counterparts continue to "teach" Indian "students" from the "superior" heights of metropolitan universities in the West. It will be a long time before Indian academics drop ...
... Macaulay's A Jacobite's Epitaph, [Aurobindo's] Hic Jacet also achieves its severe beauty through sheer economy of words; Aurobindo's theme, the very rhythm and language of the poem, all hark back to Macaulay; ... If so, it must have been an unconscious influence; for after early childhood Macaulay's verse (The Lays) ceased to appeal. The "Jacobite's Epitaph" was perhaps not even read twice; it made ...
... 114, 199, 206-7, 225, 441, 442, 596 Lohara dynasty of Kāshmir, 479 Loka-vigraha, 491-2 Looda, 269, 278 Luders, Prof, 454 Lycias, 586 Lydia, 55, 56, 465, 466, 482, 484 Macaulay, Lord, 57 McCrindle, J., 118, 164-7, 172, Page 631 245, 375, 419, 426, 435, 455, 456-7, 477, 480, 481, 498, 540 Macdonald, George, 437 ...
... be relevant to the progressive demands of today and tomorrow. While doing so, we shall need to diagnose more properly maladies that have been created by the Macaulayan system of education in India. Macaulay has succeeded in demolishing the Indian art and science of living, it has succeeded in creating in our mind the inability to recovery of that special kind of scientific spirit that was sustained ...
... torrent of fire. The skies were rent with the cries of Bande Mataram, the inspired and inspiring national hymn. It was, indeed, a glorious awakening, a virile self-assertion of a people branded by Macaulay with the stigma of effeminacy and cowardice. "In a few months' time," writes Lala Lajpat Rai in his Young India, "the face and the spirit of Bengal was changed. The press, the pulpit, Page ...
... long. The sacrifices that the Bengali youth made with incredible courage and smiling fortitude compelled the admiration even of the most callous bureaucrats, and wiped away the stigma with which Macaulay and Curzon had branded the Bengalis. These sacrifices have, indeed, never been equalled. They revolutionised the political atmosphere of the country and galvanised the whole nation. Page 111 ...
... revive Oriental learning through Government initiative or subsidies. But presently, following current trends and also bowing to the weight of authoritative opinion (Rammohan Roy on the one hand, Macaulay on the other), Lord William Bentinck's Government resolved in 1835 to give official support to "English education alone". This was the real effective beginning of the "new education". The ...
... on Western lines as to lose their separate individuality and their sympathy with the mass of the nation. An essential part of this policy which became dominant owing to the strong personalities of Macaulay, Bentinck and others, was to yield certain minor rights to the small educated class, and concede the larger rights as slowly as possible and only in answer to growing pressure. This policy was not ...
... Aurobindo. Citations . Articles known to be by Shyam Sunder Chakravarti and Hemendra Prasad Ghose often contain long quotations from or allusions to certain British prose writers (Mill, Macaulay) and poets (Shakespeare, Milton). Sri Aurobindo's articles contain few quotations but occasional allusions to a wide range of Biblical, classical, European and Indian literary works. ...
... treacle, wine, ghee, milk, curds and fresh water respectively. A.L. Basham, 1 writing of this geography, comments: 'This brilliantly imaginative picture of the world, which aroused the scorn of Lord Macaulay, seems to have been implicitly believed in by later Hindu theologians, and even astronomers could not emancipate themselves from it, but adapted it to their spherical earth by making Meru the earth's ...
... impact really create a renaissance? To understand the nature and conditions of this impact, we have to go to some of the documents of the early 19th century in India. Example: Macaulay's minute. It was Macaulay who argued that the West could impact India the way in which the Classical languages impacted Western Europe and the Western European languages themselves civilised Russia. In other words the whole ...
... present juncture of India's historical development; (b)The present system of education, its origin in Macaulay's Minutes on Education, and the defects of the present system that can be traced to Macaulay and his followers; (c)Recent efforts made by the Government in respect of introducing Value-Oriented Education at all levels of education; (d)Study of the Fundamental Duties; (e)In ...
... Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Speaker : Shri R.C. Tripathi Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha : Macaulay, English Education and its Impact 1.00 p.m.: : Open Discussion 1.15 p.m : Chairperson's Address 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. : LUNCH BREAK Session ...
... Pre-Seminar Discussion" is included in the Raport of the Seminar. 1.3The National Seminar on the Philosophy of Value-Oriented Education deliberated on the following major themes/topics: *Macaulay, English Education and its Impact *Educational Philosophies of the Leaders of the Ranascent India * Vision of Value-Oriented Education *Innovative Practices in Respect of Value-Oriented ...
... really not served the purpose that we have in view. He said that over the last 50 years, the only thing in which the country has succeeded is in multiplying the number of schools on the same pattern as Macaulay had envisaged. He felt that what is required is revolution and that the teachers have to become aware of the necessity of a thorough-going revolution in education. With these words, he presented ...
... subcontinent had come under the control of the British. The exploitation of India by the British had reached very great proportions. The Indian nation was thus facing a great crisis. The historian T.B. Macaulay thought that India was at the point of dissolution. The society was steeped in superstition, manacled by primitive customs, and it seemed that the sense of community had all but vanished. The situation ...
... Mahabharata, and Hellenic parallel, 108; paradisal, infernal, terrestrial, 110; descent into Hell, 112ff; the Temptation Scene, 112-13; Love's labour's won, 114 Lucas, F.L., 71 Macaulay, Lord, 13, 42-3, 491 Macdonald, Ramsay, 205,216, 369 Madgaokar, G. D., 208 Mahabharata, The, 5, 50, 63, 68, 69, 80ff, 88, 108,147, 250, 646, 661ff, 664, 666 Mahatmas: ...
... findings. There have been others too, who have felt the call of India and succumbed to the fascination of her infectious spirituality. If there have been denigrators of Indian culture like Abbe Dubois, Macaulay and William Archer, there have been stout apologists too like Sir William Jones, Max Muller and Sir John Woodroffe: negative and positive responses seem to cancel one another out; but this does not ...
... sensational man may be entirely satisfied and delighted, and even in the more developed human being the sensational element may find a poetical satisfaction not of the highest. The best ballad poetry and Macaulay's lays are instances in point. Scott is a sort of link between sensational and intellectual poetry. While there are men mainly sensational, secondarily intellectual and not at all ideal, he will always ...
... have sanctioned the name of poetry for any kind of effective language set in a vigorous or catching metrical form, and although the wideness of this definition is such that it has enabled even the Macaulays and Kiplings to mount their queer poetic thrones, I will not object: catholicity is always a virtue. Nevertheless, mere force of language tacked on to the trick of the metrical beat does not answer ...
... comfort; they did not know that they were breaking up the fountains of the great deep. There, stated shortly, is the whole sense of their policy and conduct. The habit, set in vogue by rhetoricians of Macaulay's type, of making large professions of benevolence invested with an air of high grandiosity, has become so much a second nature with them, that I will not ask if they are sincere Page 56 ...
... at times said that Jesus brought an interim religion, a religion of what he conceived to be the earth's final days, and not one intended for ages to come, with a Church meant to last even when, in Macaulay's famous fantasy, a native traveller from Newzealand stands on a broken arch of London Bridge to contemplate the ruins of St. Paul's. Page 39 ...
... Cemetery) and Charles Stewart Parnell (1891) are both vigorous expressions of Sri Aurobindo's political sensibility, and are immediately effective by reason of their clarity and strength. Like Macaulay's A Jacobite's Epitaph, Sri Aurobindo's Hic Jacet also achieves its severe beauty through sheer economy of words: Jacobean or Irish patriot, the end is the same: Forget all feuds, and shed... behold your guerdon.... Where sits he?... Beneath this stone He lies: this guerdon only Ireland gave, A broken heart and an unhonoured grave. (Hic Jacet) The influence of Macaulay's poem on Sri Aurobindo must, however, have been unconscious, for he seems never to have read The Lays of Ancient Rome after early childhood; and A Jacobite's Epitaph, in particular, had made ...
... expressed in the language of high emotion and radiant intuition. How many people will appreciate it is a question which is irrelevant to the merit of the poetry. More people have appreciated sincerely Macaulay's Lays or Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads than ever really appreciated Timon of Athens or Paradise Regained —but that does not determine the relative value or appropriateness of these things ...
... little ego that is always ready to pop up. "Coil" in the expression to which you point on p. 731 of Mother India, November 1989 should hardly puzzle you. Surely you must know, as does Macaulay's famous "every schoolboy", that to "shuffle off this mortal coil" is Shakespearian poetry for the prosaic act of dying. But "mortal coil" does not refer to our perishable body, as most people think ...
... or mystic it may be, yet its fundamental connotation is not thus limited: it can also be moral or philosophical, provided there is no dull morality or dry philosophy. Just as Arnold could not read Macaulay's To all the men upon this earth Death cometh soon or late Page 52 without a cry of pain at its ring of false metal, one cannot refrain from laughter at the goody-goody ...
... expressed in the language of high emotion and radiant intuition. How many people will appreciate it is a question which is irrelevant to the merit of the poetry. More people have appreciated sincerely Macaulay's Lays or Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads than ever really appreciated Timon of Athens or Paradise Regained— but that does not determine the relative value or appropriateness of these things as ...
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