Revision quiz

Define Linguist

• Someone who knows and studies languages

• An expert in the law

• Scholar of Sanskrit

True or False

The Madrasa was set up in Calcutta at 1791

• True

• False

The Hindu college in ______________ was to encourage the study of ancient Sanskrit texts

• Meerut

• Delhi

• Benaras

Who attacked the orientalists?

• Henry thimas Colebrook

• James Mill

• Willian Jones

Who saw India as an uncivilized country?

• Thomas Babbington Macaulay

• William Carey

• James Mill

Define Munshi

• A Person who can read, write and teach Sanskrit

• A Person who can read, write and teach Arabic

• A Person who can read, write and teach Persian

........................were those who were having scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia.

• Professor

• Orientalist

• Linguist

Henry Thomas Colebrook, Nathaniel Halhed and William Jones started a journal called Asia's' researches: True or False

• True

• False