Language as a tool of cultural expansion

Abstract

In the article, the authors consider the problem of using language as a means of expansion and subjugation. This problem is analyzed on the example of the educational reform of the British politician T. Macaulay, aimed at the Anglonization of the Indian society of the colonial period. The result of the policy of Macaulayism, which, from the point of view of the authors, is still used today, was the formation of a new class of English-speaking Indian creative elite. The authors, from the standpoint of Humboldt's philosophy of language, give a philosophical analysis of the point of view of Macaulayan policy critics that the English-language Indian philosophy, art and culture as a whole have lost their authenticity.