Apart from citing the need for uniformity in laws and legal outcomes, the approach to indigenous societal structures and the demonisation of the ‘caste’ system as well as Brahmins may be traced to Macaulay to a significant extent. Critically, he made no bones of the fact that the spread of European civilisation in the East would benefit Britain from the standpoint of governance since Europeanisation of the native population would bridge the cultural gap and make governance and assimilation less cumbersome.
