what do you mean by downward filtration theory
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Actually, the Government of the East India Company wanted to educate some great Indians for profits in their business through the Downward Filtration Theory. The downward filtration theory means that the education was provided to a small portion of the people, and through them, education was conveyed to the masses.
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Macaulay believed that in the first phase, the knowledge of English & Western would spread among the upper and middle class in India. Gradually, these educated Indian's would help to take this new education masses, and it would filters through the layers of soil to reach rock-bottom. This theory is known as the downward filtration theory .
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