During India's Colonial period, 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.
Hence, through this theory, the minute did partiality by giving education to some favourable persons as they liked to engage them in their business policy.
Lord Macaulay’s Education Policy, 1835 was an attempt to create that system of education which educates only upper strata of society through English.
