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Who remarked about the East India Company that "The Company is an anomaly but it is part of a system where everything is an anomaly"?

Who remarked about the East India Company that "The Company is an anomaly but it is part of a system where everything is an anomaly"? Correct Answer G. B. Macaulay

The correct answer is G. B. Macaulay.

Key Points

  • "The Company is an anomaly but it is part of a system where everything is an anomaly" remark was given by Thomas Babington Macaulay.
  • He became India's first Law Member of the Governor-General Council after the Charter Act of 1833 was passed.
  • He ensured that English flourished in India.
  • He brought education policy in 1835 and was published titled "Minute on Indian Education".
  • He advocated imparting English to Indians and teaching them in English.
  • English Education Act was passed in 1835 by Lord William Bentick.

Additional Information

  • Warren Hastings
    • First Governor-General of Bengal
    • Established a system of civil administration.
    • The abolished dual system of Robert Clive
  • Lord Clive
    • First Governor of Bengal
    • Faught Battle of Plassey against Siraj-Ud-Daulah
    • He amassed a great fortune and went back to Britain in 1760.
  • ​Henry Dundas
    • ​Introduced Dundas Bill in 1783
    • To remove problems of Regulating Act

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