This image is going on & on as a forward mail for some time now. If you believed that this was true, then you have mistaken. This is just a false propaganda , a fake one.
The truth is that Macaulay was in India for about four years . One of his most famous work in India was Criminal Procedure Code, especially the section 420 which has made its way into day to day conversation as 'char sou bisi' referring to fraudsters.
Another of his important contribution to India was his determination and effort to introduce English as medium of education. Modernists still praise him for this.
The actual minute written by Macaulay on 2nd Feb 1835 promoting English as a medium of language has a negative approach towards Indian and Arabic culture. In the minute he disrespectfully says
" I have no knowledge of either Sanscrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value. I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanscrit works. I have conversed, both here and at home, with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the orientalists themselves. 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. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is indeed fully admitted by those members of the committee who support the oriental plan of education."
This single paragraph goes on to say how silly and foolish was this British Whig, bent upon introducing English along with the Western culture in India. This is one reason why people hate Macaulay and Macaulayism.
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