Explanation:

Explanation :

Macaulay’s Minute of 1835

• Macaulian system was a systematic effort to educate the upper classes of India. The general education of the populace was not Macaulay's goal.
• He put implicit faith in the infiltration theory (‘Downward Filtration Theory’ or ‘Trickle Down Effect’), which held that English-educated persons would act as the class of interpreters.
• Thus, learning local languages as a support for teaching English was a logical outcome of his theory.
• William Bentinck accepted the Macaulay Committee report.
•  He stated that the object of the Company’s Government should be the promotion of European literature and sciences through the English language, and in future, all funds were to be spent for that purpose.
• This famous minute finally settled the debate in the favour of Anglicists, that is, the limited government resources were to be devoted to teaching of western sciences and literature through the medium of English language alone.
• Lord Macaulay was of the view that ” Indian learning was inferior to European learning”, which was true as far as physical and social sciences in the contemporary stage were concerned.
• The Government soon made English as the medium of instruction in its schools and colleges and opened a few English schools and colleges instead of a large number of elementary schools, thus neglecting mass education.
• The British planned to educate a small section of upper and middle classes, thus creating a class “Indian in blood and colour but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect” 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.

Through the Macaulay’s system the British Government intended to educate the upper and middle classes who were likely to take up the task of educating and spreading modern ideas among them. Macaulay had faith in the “infiltration theory”.