Which critic of the Orientalists said a single shelf of a good European library was worth all the native literature of India and Arabia?
AThomas Macaulay
BJames Mill
CCharles Wood
DWilliam Adam
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Thomas Macaulay
1. He saw India as uncivilised.
2. Macaulay made the remark.
3. He pushed for teaching English.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 7, Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation._
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