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education before british rule

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The schools opened for elementary educations were called

a)

Patshalas

b)

Tols

c)

Maktabas

d)

Madrasas

2.

Guess the person...

(a)  

3.

When was the woods dispatch passed?

a)

1852

b)

1854

c)

1856

d)

1876

4.

............. departments were setup in all provinces to look after education of Indians.

a)

Education

b)

University

c)

Agricultural

d)

Industrial

5.

Who was a prominent critic of Orientalists?

a)

Lord Macaulay

b)

William Jones

c)

Mahatma Gandhi

d)

Henry Thomas Colebrooke

6.

Shantiniketan was set up in by ..

...............

a)

Mahatma Gandhi

b)

Sarojini Naidu

c)

Rabindranath Tagore

d)

Lord Cornwallis

7.

Elementary schools for Hindu children in pre Birtish period .........

a)

Makhtabs

b)

Madarsas

c)

Pathshaalas

d)

Gurukuls

8.

Higher education in the pre British India was ................ in nature

a)

Vocational

b)

Technical

c)

Scientific

d)

Religious

9.

Benars Sanskrit College was established in the year.........

a)

1791

b)

1792

c)

1793

d)

1794

10.

Sir William Jones arrived in India in 1783 at............

a)

Madras

b)

Bombay

c)

Calcutta

d)

Kanpur

11.

Charter Act was passed in the year..........

a)

1813

b)

1814

c)

1815

d)

1816

12.

.......... was the Law Member of the Governor-General's Counil.

a)

Charles wood

b)

Jonathan Duncan

c)

Sir William Jones

d)

Thomas Macaulay

13.

Lord Macaluay was the president of the Board of Control in England.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Who se up Asiatic Society of Bengal?

a)

James Mill

b)

Mahendra Lal Sircar

c)

William Jones

15.

Who established Benaras Sanskrit College at Benaras?

a)

Thomas Macaulay

b)

Dayanand Saraswati

c)

Jonathan Duncan

d)

James Mill

16.

Who said," Literacy in itself is no education".

a)

Rabindranath Tagore

b)

Mahatma Gandhi

c)

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

17.

who introduced Nai Talim scheme for educating Indians?

a)

Mahatma Gandhi

b)

James Mill

c)

Rabindranath Tagore

d)

Dayanand Saraswati

18.

The 'Indian Science Congress' was founded in __________.

a)

1912

b)

1914

c)

1813

d)

185

19.

University established by Rabindranath Tagore is ________.

a)

Maharaja Sayajirao

b)

Vishva Bharti

c)

Aligarh University

20.

Education before the arrival of British was mostly orally.

a)

True

b)

False