that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
This statement doesn't acknowledge non-European knowledge.
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It would be, on the most selfish view of the case, far better for us that the people of India were well governed and independent of us, than ill governed and subject to us
Macaulay frames British interest as compatible with Indian independence, his is reasoning is economic (better trading partners).
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