Chapter 1 After Latin
Chapter 2 1813, 1833
Chapter 3 Texts and Contexts of "The Government of India"
Chapter 4 Constructing Macaulay’s Minute
Chapter 5 Apocrypha
Chapter 6 Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education: Trinity College Manuscript, Annotated
Chapter 7 Bentinck’s Resolution and Vernacular Education
Chapter 8 Reading and Writing the Law
Chapter 9 Downward Filtration
Chapter 10 College English in India: The First Textbook
Chapter 11 Examining English
Chapter 12 The First Competition Wallahs
Chapter 13 Macaulay and Meritocracy
Chapter 14 Global Language
Biography
Michael Hancher is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota. He has published research about Victorian writers and artists (R. Browning, Macaulay, Dickens, Carroll, Tenniel, Hunt, Millais); about intention and interpretation, speech-act theory, pragmatics, and the law; and about the history and rationale of pictorial illustration in dictionaries. Recent publications include The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books (2nd ed., 2019); “Seeing and Tagging Things in Pictures” (2021); and “Illustrations in Dictionaries” (2024).
