Civilizing the Natives....

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

• True

• False

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

• Benaras

• Calcutta

• Bihar

• Bombay

In the 1830s, William Adam a scottish missionary toured the districts of Bombay & Calcutta.

• True

• False

William Jones was a linguist because

• he had studied Greek and Latin

• he knew French and English

• he had learnt Persian

• all of these

What type of school did Tagore want to set up?

• Where the child was happy

• Where he/she could be free and creative

• He/she was able to explore her own thoughts and desire

• All of the above

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

• Mahatma Gandhi

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Subhas Chandra Bose

• Aacharya Vinoba Bhave

Linguist is Someone who knows and studies several languages

• True

• False

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

• Henry Colebrook

• James Warren

• Bruce Jones

• Paul Henry

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

• Linguistic

• Orientalists

• Vernacularists

• Munshis

Wood’s Dispatch for ‘Education for Commerce’ in India was introduced by ____.

• Charles Wood

• William Wood

• Henry Wood

• Archie Wood