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If the picture of Thomas Babington Macaulay, above, reminds you of the upper-crust British society that Oscar Wilde parodied so well, you have to remember that Macaulay came two generations earlier. In a sense, he was the upper crust of British society, and not the parody version.
Macaulay's views of British society are scattered throughout the history he wrote, and will be summarized in a later version of this page.
Links
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron Macaulay
- A brief Encarta article about Macaulay
- The Thomas Babington Macaulay Page
- Included in the San Antonio (Texas) College Victorian Literature Index
- James I and the Doctrine of The Divine Right of Kings
- A quote from Macaulay's History, in the hypertext context of The Victorian Web
- Influence of English Law in India
- The First Indian Law Commission was headed by Lord Macaulay.
- Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education
- He was a main instigator in making English the language of instruction under British rule. (See his mention of Indian journalists in Chapter IV of his history.)
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