WorksheetsCIVILISING THE NATIVE EDUCATING THE NATION
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
William Jones had started a journal which was called
The Times of India
Bengal Gazette
Asiatick Research
Philosphical Research
To promote Islamic law, a madarasa was set up at ______ in 1861.
Bombay
Calcutta
Benaras
Lucknow
_______ 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
________ college was established in Calcutta on the banks of river Hooghly.
Serampore
Hindu
Islamic
Scottish
_______ was one of the first British officials to attack the views of Orientalists.
William Jones
Henry Colebrook
James Mill
Henry Ongle
In the 1830s, no classes were held for rural students once ______ started.
harvest season
rainy season
winter season
summer season
Wood’s Dispatch was introduced in _____.
1854
1855
1845
1839
To promote study of English texts, the company set up a Hindu College in _____
Benaras
Madras
Surat
Lucknow
_______ started Shantiniketan in 1901.
Rabindranath Tagore
Subhash Chandra Bose
Aurbindo Ghosh
R C Mukherjee
In the picture is Macaulay ,what is he famous for in history?
Wood's Despatch
Asiatick Researches
Macaulay's minutes
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.
""English Education has enslaved us""who said these lines ?
Rabindranath Tagore
Mahatma Gandhi
W.C Banerjea
The pathshala the system suited local needs because
rural children worked in fields
Gurus worked on fields and then came to teach
pathshala started only when crops were cut so children from peasant families could could students
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
Who are the people in this image?
Rabindranath Tagore & Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi & William Adam
Henry Thomas Colebrooke & William Carey
Rabindranath Tagore & William Jones
James Mill supported Oriental way of learning and even encouraged the Orientalists
True
False
The English Education Act was introduced in
1780
1920
1833
1835
1900
Munshi was a person who can read, write and teach Persian
True
False
