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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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