In 1835 Education Minutes, T. B. Macaulay (later Lord) as law Member of the Supreme Council summarily rejected Indian languages as being obsolete for communication media to deserve consideration for the patronage of the colonial Govt. Remarkably, no protest came against this policy of adopting English as the medium of instruction from the Indian literati. English education, therefore, became a valid passport for jobs to the middle and upper middle and upper middle class people of the mid-19th century Bengal.