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He is credited with the term Macaulay's Children, which is used to refer to people born of Indian ancestry who adopt Westen Culture as a lifestyle. The term is usually used in a derogatory fashion, and the connotation is one of disloyalty to one's country and one's heritage.

The passage to which the term refers is from his Minute on Indian Education, delivered in 1835. It reads, "We must at present do our best to form a class who may be ... Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country ...,"

He was raised to the Peerage in 1857 as Baron Macauley, of Rothley in the County of Leicester.

1 Quotes

• "His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar."

• "Thus then stands the case: it is good that authors should be remunerated and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly, yet monopoly is an evil for the sake of the good. We must submit to the evil, but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good."

2 Works

• Lays of Ancient Rome ; available from Project Gutenberg; [1]
• The History of England from the Accession of James II ; available in five volumes from Project Gutenberg; [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]
• Critical and Historical Essays, edited by Alexander James Grieve ; available in two volumes from Project Gutenberg; [7], [8]
• The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, available in four volumes from Project Gutenberg; [9], [10], [11], [12]
• Machiavelli; online at bartleby.com; [13]

3 External Links

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRmacaulay.htm
• Macaulay on Copyright