ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hint: Lord Macaulay was a historian and poet. He was appointed as the first Law member of the governor general council and served from 1834 to 1838 and ensured that English thrives in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 2 February 1835, British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay presented his ‘Minute on Indian Education’ that sought to establish the need to impart English education to Indian ‘natives’. This minute is a very important document for UPSC history.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ill Macaulay arrived in India in June 1834 as the Law-Member of the Governor-General’s Council. He spent the first seven months of his stay in India at Ooty, a hill station near Madras where the Governor-General of india had also been camping since June 1834.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE (/ˈbæbɪŋtən məˈkɔːli/; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848.