Multiple choice

Who saw India as an uncivilised society that needed to be civilised.

  1. (a) James Mill

  2. (b) Thomas Macaulay

  3. (c) Robert Clive

  4. (d) Warren Hastings

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Thomas Babington Macaulay famously expressed the view that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia, reflecting his belief that India needed to be civilized.