In general, Anglicists called for reforms in the colonial government of India and of Indian society;

they also called for English to replace Persian as the language of higher education and
administration in India,

Anglicist in American. (ˈæŋgləsɪst ; aŋˈgləsist) a student of or authority on the English

language and literature.

Anglicists
The Anglicists held a view of non-European societies opposite to that of the scholars and administrators known
as Orientalists. They believed that non-European societies had little to teach Europeans about civilization, and
that it was better to teach "natives" about European culture and civilization than about their own civilizations.
Anglicists were influenced by the philosophy of utilitarianism espoused by James Mill (the father of John Stuart
Mill). Mill wrote a two-volume History of India (1818), a manual for colonial administrators to read before going
to India, without ever having visited the place himself. In general, Anglicists called for reforms in the colonial
government of India and of Indian society; they also called for English to replace Persian as the language of
higher education and administration in India, to the dismay of Orientalists. The Anglicists won the debate when
the supreme council of the East India Company accepted the argument of Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1835
"Minute on Indian Education," which proclaimed, "We must at present do our best to form a class who may be
interpreters between us and millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but
English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."

Macaulay learnt that traditional education system in India made Indians attached to their own
tradition, culture and rituals. But since that meant useless for colonial rule, he thought of
changing the educational system in India. British India was in need of people who can do
clerical jobs.

Thomas Babington Macaulay was the secretary to the Board of control of India during
the British rule. He was the secretary under Lord Grey from 1832 to 1833. he is known for his
Minute on Indian Education which came out in February 1835. He wanted to teach English to
the people of India and not Sanskrit or Persian.

He played a major role in the introduction of English and western concepts to education in
India, and published his argument on the subject in the "Macaulay Minute" in 1835.

Macaulay wrote his famous minute on Feb. 2, 1835 in which he vehemently criticized almost
everything Indian: astronomy, culture, history, philosophy, religion etc., and praised everything
western.

Moreover, to make the point clear, it must be

mentioned that Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a great supporter of the medium of
instruction being English, instead of the then prevalent languages of the schools
The English Education Act 1835 was a legislative Act of the Council of India , gave effect to a
decision in 1835 by Lord William Bentinck,then Governor-General of British India, to reallocate funds
the East India Company was required by the British Parliament to spend on education and literature
in India.

Together with other measures promoting English as the language of administration and of the higher
law courts (replacing Persian), this led eventually to English becoming one of the languages of India,
rather than simply the native tongue of its foreign rulers.

Thomas Babington Macaulay produced his famous Memorandum on (Indian) Education which was
scathing on the inferiority (as he saw it) of native (particularly Hindu) culture and learning. He argued
that Western learning was superior, and currently could only be taught through the medium of
English. There was therefore a need to produce - by English-language higher education -" a class of
persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect" who
could in their turn develop the tools to transmit Western learning in the vernacular languages of
India.

Macaulay’s comparison of Arabic and Sanskrit literature to what was available in English is forceful,
colourful, and nowadays often quoted against him.
I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern
tongues. .... I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good
European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.[9][10] Honours might be
roughly even in works of the imagination, such as poetry, but when we pass from works of
imagination to works in which facts are recorded, and general principles investigated, the superiority
of the Europeans becomes absolutely immeasurable."[9]