“Lord Macaulay’s 1835 British Parliamentary address glorifying India and advocating a plan to conquer India.”
What FACTLY found
Lord Macaulay’s ‘Minute on Education’ address dated 02 February 1835 establishes the fact that he did not address British Parliament on that date. There are no British parliamentary records of the purported speech available on Hansards. Even in ‘Minute on Education’, Macaulay has rooted for Western education. There are multiple news articles available which state that Macaulay had not made such comments glorifying India
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 20 January 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 25 January 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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