A century ago, Lord Macaulay had expressed a fine desire on observing us: “We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.” Macaulay’s farsightedness must be commended, for why else should the resolve of 1833 take the form that it has today in India, and particularly in West Bengal?