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Mill and Macaulay did not support Orientalists.

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Many British officials criticised the Orientalist vision of learning. They believed that knowledge of the East was full of unscientific thoughts and errors and that Eastern literature was non-serious and light-hearted. James Mill declared that the British effort should not be to teach what the natives wanted but to teach what was beneficial and practical. Thomas Babington Macaulay saw India as an uncivilised country that needed to be civilised by the British. He insisted the British government stop wasting public money on promoting Oriental learning. Mill and Macaulay did not support Orientalists.

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