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WorksheetsCivilising the native , educating the nation
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 23mins
______ was one of the first Company officials to study Sanskrit.
Esther Hills
John Mills
William Jones
Robert Clive
William Jones had started a journal which was called
The Times of India
Bengal Gazette
Asiatick Research
Philosphical Research
_______ 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
A person who can read, write and teach Persian is known as _______
Munshi
Maulavi
Qazi
Brahman
Wood’s Dispatch also aimed at clearing _______ of Indian people.
poverty
moral character
illiteracy
sophistication
_______ saw India as an uncivilised society that needed to be civilised.
James Mill
Thomas Macaulay
Robert Clive
Warren Hastings
Until 1813, East India Company was opposed to the _______ in India.
missionary activities
religious function
education
trade
_______ was one of the first British officials to attack the views of Orientalists.
William Jones
Henry Colebrook
James Mill
Henry Ongle
According to Adam’s report, there were over ____ schools in rural Bihar and Bengal in the 1830s.
1 lakh
50 thousand
2 lakhs
5 lakhs
In the 1830s, no classes were held for rural students once ______ started.
harvest season
rainy season
winter season
summer season
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
Santiniketan is also referred to as
pathshalas
abode of peace
Pathshala and missionary school
William Adams found the system of education
rigid and flexible
rigid
flexible
""English Education has enslaved us""who said these lines ?
Rabindranath Tagore
Mahatma Gandhi
W.C Banerjea
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
In the picture is Macaulay ,what is he famous for in history?
Wood's Despatch
Asiatick Researches
Macaulay's minutes
James Mill supported Oriental way of learning and even encouraged the Orientalists
True
False
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
WHICH OF THESE IS NOT AN ORIENTALIST?
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
WILLIAM JONES
HENRY THOMAS COLEBROOKE
NATHANIEL HALHED
William Adam toured the districts of _____ and _______ in 1830s.
Banaras
Calcutta
Bengal
Bihar
When was the Wood's Despatch issued by Charles Wood sent?
1866
1854
1918
1890
1800
The ideas of William Jones were supported by
James Mill
Thomas Macaulay
Charles Wood
Henry Thomas Colebrook
James Mill said the following lines
Literacy in itself us not education
grave errors of the East
a single shelf of good European Library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia
William Jones was a linguist because
he had studied Greek and Latin
he knew French and English
he had learnt Persian
all of these
8.The term vernacular language means_____________
local language
English language
Persian language
Sanskrit language
9.Orientalist refers who _____________
supports the language and culture of West
advocates language and culture of Asia
10."A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia" who said these words?
James Mill
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Arnold
William Carey
Rabindranath Tagore started Shantiniketan , an educational institution in which year?
1904
1864
1901
1921
To promote Islamic law, a madarasa was set up at ______ in 1861.
Bombay
Calcutta
Benaras
Lucknow
Wood’s Dispatch for ‘Education for Commerce’ in India was introduced by ____.
Charles Wood
William Wood
Henry Wood
Archie Wood
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.
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
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
Study of which of the following was NOT the purpose of setting up Madrasa in Calcutta in 1781?
Arabic
Sanskrit
Persian
Islamic laws
Who was the president of the Board of Control of the company?
(a)
Tagore's Santiniketan is a book
No, It's an institution
Yes, It's a book
No, It's a club
No, It's a movement
William Jones had an appointment as the _________ judge at the Company's Supreme Court.
junior
senior
subordinate
main
Wood's Despatch __________ the Orientalist system of learning.
supported
opposed
Colebrooke felt that teaching English to Indians would help them read some of the world's finest literature.
False
True
The Serampore Mission was established with the help of the _________ East India Company.
Dutch
French
Danish
Portuguese
Which of these were the tasks of government pandits?
Visit pathshalas
Submit monthly reports to the Company
Improve the standard of pathshalas
Donate money for pathshalas
