Civilizing the Natives Educating the Nation

Civilizing the Natives Educating the Nation

Multiple Choice

To promote study of Sanskrit texts, the company set up a Hindu College in _____

• Benaras

• Madras

• Surat

• Lucknow

Multiple Choice

_______ was one of the first British officials to attack the views of Orientalists.

• William Jones

• Henry Colebrook

• James Mill

• Henry Ongle

Multiple Choice

_______ saw India as an uncivilised society that needed to be civilised.

• James Mill

• Thomas Macaulay

• Robert Clive

• Warren Hastings

Multiple Choice

Those who have scholarly knowledge of Asiatic language and culture are called _____

• Linguistic

• Orientalists

• Vernacularists

• Munshis

Multiple Choice

_______ was introduced in India in 1835.

• English Education Act

• Arabic Education Act

• Sanskrit Education Act

• Civil Services Act

Multiple Choice

To promote Islamic law, a madarasa was set up at ______ in 1861.

• Bombay

• Calcutta

• Benaras

• Lucknow

Multiple Choice

_______ was an English official who had deep respect for the Indian culture.

• Henry Colebrook

• James Warren

• Bruce Jones

• Paul Henry

Multiple Choice

______ was one of the first Company officials to study Sanskrit.

• Esther Hills

• John Mills

• William Jones

• Robert Clive

Multiple Choice

Wood’s Dispatch also aimed at clearing _______ of Indian people.

• poverty

• moral character

• illiteracy

• sophistication

Multiple Choice

Wood’s Dispatch also aimed at clearing _______ of Indian people.

• poverty

• moral character

• illiteracy

• sophistication

Multiple Choice

If the Hindu college was established in Benares then what was set up in Calcutta and why?

• Madrasa to promote the study of the Dharma-shastra and Arabic ,Persian and Islamic Law

• Madrasa to promote the study of Arabic ,Persian and Islamic law

• tell the community about local customs,laws and interpret ancient texts.

Multiple Choice

In the picture is Macaulay ,what is he famous for in history?

• Wood's Despatch

• Asiatick Researches

• Macaulay's minutes

Multiple Choice

Tagore was different from Gandhi because he

• was critical of of worship of machines and technology

• believed learning could only happen in a natural environment

• wanted to combine elements of western civilisation with what he saw as best with Indian tradition

Multiple Select

Gandhi argued colonial education had

• destroyed the sense of pride in the Indian's own culture

• created a sense of inferiority in in Indian Minds

• Indian languages ought to be the medium of instruction

Multiple Choice

""English Education has enslaved us""who said these lines ?

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Mahatma Gandhi

• W.C Banerjea

Multiple Choice

_______ started Shantiniketan in 1901.

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Subhash Chandra Bose

• Aurbindo Ghosh

• R C Mukherjee

Multiple Choice

_______ started Shantiniketan in 1901.

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Subhash Chandra Bose

• Aurbindo Ghosh

• R C Mukherjee