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Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British 
power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s 
Council in India from 1834 to 1838, working on legal and 
educational changes in that country. In his view, the 
establishment of British control and influence in India was part of 
a great civilizing mission, helping to rid India of its 
backwardness, superstitions, and corruption by replacing them 
with an advanced English culture, scientific and literary. That 
view comes through very clearly both in this essay and that of his 
on Warren Hastings as well. Needless to say many Indians have 
and have had a rather different outlook. ( Nicholas Clifford) 


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Read by Nicholas Clifford. Total running time: 3:25:38 


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