An irony governs the reputation of Thomas Babington Lord Macaulay 150 years after his death. Within living memory much of the English reading world has demoted him from an Eminent Victorian properly mentioned in the same breath with John Stuart Mill and George Eliot to a name known only to liberal arts graduates of a certain age and to students of nineteenth century culture. Meanwhile, his legacy flourishes in South Asia, where he detested living but relished power. The Latin inscription below his statue in TrinityCollege, CambridgeUniversity, acclaims him for reforming the letters and laws of India. The tribute sounds like imperial hyperbole until you hear the voice of a fluent English speaker in a call center in what was recently Bangalore(Bengalooru) and consider that in 1835 Macaulay, not yet thirty five, was instrumental in launching English as the subcontinent’s shared language. [download]
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