Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist

Zareer Masani

Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 December 2014
Pages
288
ISBN
9780099587026

Macaulay: Britain’s Liberal Imperialist

Zareer Masani

The first biography of Thomas Macaulay, from child prodigy to imperial administrator in India and revered elder statesman and historian in Britain

Thomas Macaulay always inspired both admiration and hostility. He introduced English education to India, creating a class of westernised Indians often reviled as ‘Macaulay’s children’, but today many former ‘Untouchables’ literally worship him as their liberator from caste tyranny.;;This biography gives a vivid insight into one of the towering intellects of Victorian Britain- a brilliant, complex, self-made man, who rose from middle-class origins to the highest circles of the world’s largest empire. We follow his meteoric journey from child prodigy to Whig parliamentary orator, then imperial administrator and liberal reformer in India, and later Cabinet minister, revered elder statesman and famed historian back in Britain. ; ;Zareer Masani reclaims Macaulay as a pioneer of globalisation based on the English language and Western values. A strong advocate of liberal interventionism across the globe, he was the ideological precursor of today’s Western military interventions in the world’s trouble-spots.

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