Based on Macaulay's Minute, the English Education Act was introduced in________.

1835

The correct answer is Option (2) - 1835

• In 1834 Thomas Babington Macaulay came to India as a Legal Member of the Council of India.
• He formulated his policy proposal in his Minute on Indian Education, delivered in Kolkata on 2^nd February 1835.
• As per Lord Macaulay's "Minutes on Indian Education" "Literature' meant English literature and not Sanskrit or Arabic or Persian literature.
• He emphasized that the medium of instruction should be English.
• His thinking was to change Indian culture.
• The Governor-General of India, William Bentinck, approved the proposal of Lord Macaulay on 7^th March 1835.
• It became the cornerstone of British-Indian educational policy until Independence (and remained largely in force after that as well).