Benjamin Babington, an official with the East India Company, translated these tales to English in 1822.
Masterminded by Sir Anthony Babington, he allegedly persuaded Mary to participate,
but letters were intercepted, and Babington was executed.
During the time of the East India Company, Thomas Babington Macaulay had made schooling taught
in English a priority for the Raj in his famous minute of February 1835 and succeeded in implementing ideas previously put forward by Lord William Bentinck the governor general between 1828 and 1835.