Arun Shourie"We must at present do our best to form a class," Macaulay wrote in his famous Minute of 1835, "who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."Now, many of the strictures in his Minute were entirely to the point: the texts which were in use at that time