Macaulay's Minute Ref. https://home.iitk.ac.in/~hcverma/Article/Macaulay-Minutes.pdf On the 2nd of February 1835, a 34-year-old British civil servant named Thomas Babington Macaulay sat in Calcutta and wrote a memorandum to the Governor-General's Council. The memorandum was about money — specifically, about how the East India Company's annual education grant of one lakh rupees should be spent. But the document that emerged was not really an accounting note. It was a civilizat