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As Masani points out, India has endured linguistic division of states and language riots, but English medium schools thrive in towns and villages today.
BBC: Recalling Thomas Macaulay's English legacy
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Macaulay took a personal interest in running five new English medium schools which opened in Bengal, a year and a half after the reforms began in 1835 - in a single town in Bengal, he wrote, 1, 400 boys were learning English.
BBC: Recalling Thomas Macaulay's English legacy
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But it has been highly controversial - initial attempts to close some English-medium schools with falling rolls has met with huge opposition.
BBC: Bi-lingual schools thrive in nations
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How much is down to low priority that the language has in some English-medium schools, despite being a compulsory part of the curriculum?
BBC: Census 2011: Number of Welsh speakers falling
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There are not enough pupils to justify a complete new school, but the parents do not want to make do with a unit in an English language medium school.
BBC: 'Satellite' Irish language school proposed in Maghera
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In an effort to meet the demand in the meantime, the authority has set up classes in Welsh within the grounds of some English-medium schools in the city, described by some as schools within schools.
BBC: Bi-lingual schools thrive in nations
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Yet, in what was the first imperial education policy in British India, Macaulay aggressively pushed for English as the medium for as many Indians as possible to be given a Western education.
BBC: Recalling Thomas Macaulay's English legacy
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And one of the remarkable features, I think, of Welsh life in the last 25 years has been the remarkable growth in Welsh medium language education and primarily, of course, in the English speaking parts of Wales.
BBC: INTERVIEW WITH IEUAN WYN JONES, LEADER, PLAID CYMRU
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The medium of instruction being in Czech for most courses (certain courses are conducted in English), the beneficiaries of these fellowships are required to pursue a one-year preparatory Czech language course.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES