# An Intermediary Class Indian in Blood but English in Intellect by Thomas Babington Macaulay > “We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern—a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” > **— Thomas Babington Macaulay**, *Minute on Indian Education, February 2, 1835* ## Sources and Context - **Primary-source transcription:** Thomas Babington Macaulay, [*Minute on Indian Education*](https://franpritchett.com/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_minute_education_1835.html), paragraph 34, February 2, 1835. The transcription identifies its print source as the Bureau of Education's *Selections from Educational Records, Part I (1781–1839)* (Calcutta, 1920; National Archives of India reprint, 1965). - **Exact original:** “We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, --a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The Reminder replaces the source transcription's comma and double hyphen with an em dash; the words are unchanged. - **Article correction:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] previously reproduced “taste” in the singular. The primary transcription reads “tastes” and has been restored here and in the article. The same variant, and the added comma before “and in intellect,” were corrected on September 22, 2026 in [[articles/Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence|Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence]], [[articles/Cognitive Liberation Through Superior Parasitic Capture and Oppression|Cognitive Liberation Through Superior Parasitic Capture and Oppression]] and [[wiki/Semiotic Colonization|Semiotic Colonization]], where the passage now appears in its source form. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban]] - **Article:** [[articles/Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence|Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence]] - **Article:** [[articles/Cognitive Liberation Through Superior Parasitic Capture and Oppression|Cognitive Liberation Through Superior Parasitic Capture and Oppression]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education|Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education]] - [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern—a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education, February 2, 1835 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-thomas-babington-macaulay-intermediary-class-indian-blood-english-intellect ```