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When did T.B. Macaulay present his "Minutes on Education” advocating English education in India?

1. 12th March, 1835
2. 2nd February, 1835
3. 22nd January, 1835
4. 5th May, 1835
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Macaulay's minute of 2 February 1835 and its endorsement by the Governor-General William Bentinck have been represented as «English Education Act» which officially required the Natives of India to submit to the study of English literature, irrevocably altering the direction of Indian education.
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