\u2022 The famous Lord Macaulay\u2019s Minute settled the row in favour of Anglicists\u2014 the limited government resources were to be devoted to the teaching of Western sciences a lone literature through the medium of English language alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Lord Macaulay held the view that \u201cIndian learning was inferior to European learning\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 The British planned to educate a small section of upper and middle classes, thus creating a class \u201cIndian in blood and colour but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect\u201d who would act as interpreters between the government and masses and would enrich the vernaculars by which knowledge of Western sciences and literature would reach the masses . This was called the \u2018downward filtration theory\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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