Civilising the "Native", Educating the nation Class 8
British colonial education policy in India including the civilizing mission, Orientalist vs Anglicist debates, Wood's Despatch, English Education Act, and Indian leaders' responses
Questions
What type of school did Tagore want to set up?
- (a) Where the child was happy
- (b) Where he/she could be free and creative
- (c) He/she was able to explore her own thoughts and desire
- (d) All of the above
According to whom, “English education had enslaved Indians”?
- (a) Rabindranath Tagore
- (b) Mahatma Gandhi
- (c) Subhas Chandra Bose
- (d) Aacharya Vinoba Bhave
After 1855, the Company decided to improve the system of vernacular education.
- True
- False
Education in Vernacular school is
- (a) Flexible
- (b) Suited to local needs
- (c) both (a) and (b)
William Carey was a Danish missionary.
- True
- False
In 1854, Wood'sDespatch on education was in favour of English being introduced as a medium of higher education in India.
- True
- False
Wood’s Dispatch for ‘Education for Commerce’ in India was introduced by
- Charles Wood
- William Wood
- Henry Wood
- Archie Wood
The English Education Act was passed
- (a) to materialise Macaulay’s thinking
- (b) to make the English the medium of instruction
- (c) to stop the promotion of oriental institutions
- (d) all of the above
The Education Act was introduced in the year
- (a) 1850
- (b) 1835
- (c) 1854
- (d) 1900
Who saw India as an uncivilised society that needed to be civilised.
- (a) James Mill
- (b) Thomas Macaulay
- (c) Robert Clive
- (d) Warren Hastings
James Mill was a severe critic of the Orientalists.
- True
- False
Madrasa was set up in Calcutta in the year
- 1741
- 1761
- 1781
- 1801
Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal?
- (a) William Jones
- (b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke
- (c) Nathaniel Halhed
- (d) All of these
A person who knows and studies several languages is known as
- (a) teacher
- (b) multi-talented
- (c) linguist
- (d) learner