CIVILISING THE NATIVE ,EDUCATING THE NATION

Santiniketan is also referred to as

• pathshalas

• abode of peace

• Pathshala and missionary school

William Adams found the system of education

• rigid and flexible

• rigid

• flexible

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

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Mahatma Gandhi

• W.C Banerjea

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

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

• Wood's Despatch

• Asiatick Researches

• Macaulay's minutes

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.

James Mill supported Oriental way of learning and even encouraged the Orientalists

• True

• False

When was the Madrasa in Calcutta set up?

• 1830

• 1800

• 1750

• 1857

• 1781

A Hindu college was established in 1791 to encourage the study of ancient Sanskrit texts. Where was this college established?

• Benaras

• Calcutta

• Bengal

• Bihar

• Bombay

What was Mahatma Gandhi's opinion on Western Education?

• Western education destroyed the pride Indians had in their own culture and created a sense of inferiority in their minds.

• He wanted to combine the best elements of Western and Indian education and culture.

• Western Education was the best. It helps to understand new wonderful things that had sense and had no errors.