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Q. With reference to education during the Colonial Period in India, “Infiltration Theory” was proposed by?
Q. With reference to education during the Colonial Period in India, “Infiltration Theory” was proposed by?
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The correct option is C Thomas Babington Macaulay
Explanation:
The ‘Macaulayian system’ was systematic effects on the part of British government to educate the upper classes of India through the medium of English language. Education of the masses was not the aim of Macauley. Macauley wrote, with limited means it is impossible to educate the body of the people. He rather put implicit faith in the Infiltration theory. He believed that the English educated person who acts as a class of interpreter and in turn enrich in which vernacular languages and thus the knowledge of Western is science and literature would reach the masses.
Explanation:
The ‘Macaulayian system’ was systematic effects on the part of British government to educate the upper classes of India through the medium of English language. Education of the masses was not the aim of Macauley. Macauley wrote, with limited means it is impossible to educate the body of the people. He rather put implicit faith in the Infiltration theory. He believed that the English educated person who acts as a class of interpreter and in turn enrich in which vernacular languages and thus the knowledge of Western is science and literature would reach the masses.
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