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\"19th Century British Historian\" T.B. Macaulay Hand Written Envelope Dated 1830:
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Up for sale "British Historian" T.B. Macaulay Hand Written Envelope Dated 1830. The envelope is affixed to a 5.5X9 monogramed card. 

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician.

He is considered primarily responsible for introducing the Western education

system in India. 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's 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. 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 abridgments 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. 

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