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Q88 (CDS-I/2011) History & Culture › Modern India (Pre-1857) › British administrative reforms Answer Verified

In addition to Macaulays Minutes on Education, another landmark Draft is also attributed to him. Identify the Draft from the following.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, serving as the first Law Member of the Governor-General's Council from 1834 to 1838, made two monumental contributions to British India [1]. While his 1835 'Minute on Indian Education' advocated for Western education through the medium of English, his other landmark achievement was the drafting of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) [2]. As the chairman of the first Law Commission established in 1834, Macaulay prepared the draft of the IPC in 1837. This draft aimed to codify and unify the diverse criminal laws prevalent in India at the time, emphasizing the Whig tradition of equality before the law. Although the code was drafted in the late 1830s, it eventually came into force in January 1860, forming the bedrock of the modern Indian legal system.

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  1. [1] Modern India ,Bipin Chandra, History class XII (NCERT 1982 ed.)[Old NCERT] > Chapter 6: Administrative Organisation and Social and Cultural Policy > Spread of Modern Education > p. 120
  2. [2] History , class XI (Tamilnadu state board 2024 ed.) > Chapter 17: Effects of British Rule > Education > p. 270
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