Who introduced English in India?

Who introduced English in India?

  • (a) Lord Bentinck
  • (b) Lord Curzon
  • (c) Lord Lytton
  • (d) Lord Mayo
In the British Empire in India, the key figure in the official advocacy of English education is generally viewed as being Thomas Babington Macaulay, based on his famous minute on Indian education, which was written in 1835. Macaulay argued forcefully in favor of the use of the English language as a medium of instruction and in support of the replacement of traditional learning in Persian and Sanskrit by Western literature and science. However, the official advocacy of English education came in the form of a resolution issued by Lord William Bentinck, who was the Governor-General of the Empire, on the 7th of March, 1835. In the resolution, the recommendations of Macaulay were adopted, and the English language was chosen as the medium of higher education.
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