In 1835, a British colonial administrator named Thomas Macaulay wrote a document known as the Minute on Indian Education. He did not hide what he was doing. He wrote, in plain language, that the goal was to create "a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect." Not educated Indians. Not Indians with expanded access to knowledge. Indians who had been replaced, from the inside, with something more governable. He put it in an official document. He signed it. It became policy. And yet somehow, when people describe the colonial education project as a deliberate instrument of cultural erasure, they are accused of being dramatic. The man wrote it down. The drama is his, not ours.