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Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian

John Leonard Clive

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Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian

Determined to be his own man, he had no sooner achieved financial and political security--in a lucrative post on the Governor-General's Council in India--than the relationship with his beloved sisters so necessary to his emotional security was destroyed. Here is the public Macaulay: cocksure and impetuous, a parvenu lacking the specific gravity of a statesman, and yet speaking out not only for freedom as an abstraction, but concretely for the rights of Jews, Roman Catholics and blacks; envisioning a potential beauty and splendor in industrialization; almost singlehandedly writing a penal code for India; becoming embroiled in the crucial controversy over Indian education (what should be taught and in what language); and forever leaving his mark on Anglo-Indian cultural relations--just as India left its mark on him.

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Publisher
New York : Knopf
Year
1973
ISBN-13
9780436102202
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Thomas Babington Macaulay's lifeBritish colonial India19th-century historiography and politics

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