...West ; and he beat down all opposition by his brilliant and impetuous attack upon Orientalism. He said that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and * Indian Musalmans, p. 143. Arabia ; that it was not decent to use the public funds for bribing the...

..."West ; and he beat down all opposition by his brilliant and impetuous attack upon Orientalism. He said that a single shelf of a good European library was...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia ; that it was not decent to use the public funds for bribing the Indian youth to read books full of...

...their mark when Lord Macaulay, as their mouthpiece, declared with his fatal facility for exaggeration, that " a single shelf of a good European library was...the whole native literature of India and Arabia." Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic, held in such supreme reverence, but a few years before, as the only...

...like Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian ; but there can be no controverting the fact asserted by Macaulay that " a single shelf of a good European library was...the whole native literature of India and Arabia." In advocating a language, to be used as the means of instruction he eloquently pleaded for English....

...Although he confessed that he knew nothing of the classical languages of the East, still he1 held " that a single shelf of a good European library was...the whole native literature of India and Arabia," and further, " that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written...

...language of commerce in the Eastern seas, as it was in South Africa and Australasia, but further, " a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia."8 The result was inevitable, Lord William Bentinck and 1 " Lord Macaulay's celebrated ' Minute,'...

...take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found any one among them who could deny that a single shelf...worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. " It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected...

...Sanskrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental...whole native literature of India and Arabia." The last sentence set Macaulay's antagonists in a frenzy. Mr Shakespeare, the president of the Instruction...

...languages, like Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian ; but there can be no disputing the fact asserted by Macaulay that " a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole literature of India and Arabia." In advocating a language, to be used as the means of instruction,...

...despised and rejected of Anglo-Indian men, 1 " I have never found one among them," wrote Macaulay, " who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...whole native literature of India and Arabia." The "modern Indian" o: those days was willing to accept that libel. the Indian was thrown back upon himself....