Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation

William Jones was a linguist because

• William Jones was a linguist because

• he knew French and English

• he had learnt Persian

• all of these

Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal?

• William Jones

• Henry Thomas Colebrooke

• Nathaniel Halhed

• All of these

Madrasa was set up in, Calcutta in the year

• 1750

• 1761

• 1771

• 1781

According to whom, “English education had enslaved Indians”?

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Mahatma Gandhi

• Subhas Chandra Bose

• Aacharya Vinoba Bhave

The Education Act was introduced in the year

• 1835

• 1850

• 1910

• 1900

Asiatick Researches (Journal) was NOT started by

• William jones

• Henry Thomas Colebrooke

• Nathaniel Halhed

• William Carey

Study of which of the following was NOT the purpose of setting up Madrasa in Calcutta in 1781?

• Arabic

• Sanskrit

• Persian

• Islamic laws