Thomas Babington Macaulay | Wikipedia audio article
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Thomas Babington Macaulay


00:01:55 1 Early life
00:04:22 2 Political career
00:05:12 2.1 India (1834–1838)
00:11:37 2.2 Return to British public life (1838–1857)
00:13:41 2.3 Later life (1857–1859)
00:14:58 3 Literary works
00:15:38 4 Historian
00:16:27 5 Political writing
00:18:00 6 Legacy as a historian
00:27:51 7 Works
00:29:08 8 Arms
00:29:17 9 See also
00:29:38 10 Notes
00:29:47 11 References and bibliography
00:29:57 12 External links



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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained an object of praise since its publication, including subsequent to the widespread condemnation of its historical contentions which became popular in the 20th century.Macaulay served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848. He played a major role in the introduction of English and western concepts to education in India, and published his argument on the subject in the "Macaulay Minute" in 1835. He supported the replacement of Persian by English as the official language, the use of English as the medium of instruction in all schools, and the training of English-speaking Indians as teachers. On the flip side, this led to Macaulayism in India, and the systematic wiping out of traditional and ancient Indian education and vocational systems and sciences. Macaulay divided the world into civilised nations and barbarism, with Britain representing the high point of civilisation. In his Minute on Indian Education of February 1835, he asserted, "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". He was wedded to the Idea of Progress, especially in terms of the liberal freedoms. He opposed radicalism while idealising historic British culture and traditions.