British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay presented his Minute on Indian Education on 2 February 1835 and it aimed to establish the need to impart English education to Indian natives . It does not appear in the Hansard for that date, as everything else said in Parliment then does. Lord Macaulay (Thomas Babington Macaulay: 1800- 1859) was a British historian essayist orator and states man. 1834, he was deputed of India as a law member in Government [Governor general] Executive council and later on appointed as the chairman of the general committee on public Instruction. Lord Macauly is known to have been in the middle of a stint in India (halfway around the world) in 1835 when this was supposedly delivered to Parliment. Lord Macaulay's address to the British Parliament on 2nd Feb 1835. read to know more about this and other important events that took place on this day in History in this article. On this basis he advocated the national system of education for … Lord Macaulay’s address to the British Parliament in 2 February, 1835: "I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. 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. He was the commissioner of Board of control of Indian affairs in the British Government. This is a misquoted paraphrasing of the original Macaulay's minutes.I think this post portrays Macaulay -the founding father of the current Indian Education System(as we learnt in our school books) in good light.