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Colonial Education

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The British established schools in _______ and ______

a)

Chennai and Bangalore

b)

Chennai and Bombay

c)

Calcutta and Chennai

d)

Calcutta and Bangalore

2.

_______ was against Orientalists

a)

John Start

b)

John Mills

c)

John Simon

d)

John Bentik

3.

Identify the personality

a)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

b)

Dayananda Saraswati

c)

Aurobindo Ghosh

d)

Rabindranath Tagore

4.

Charles Wood sent a despatch to _______

a)

William Jones

b)

William Bentick

c)

Warren Hastings

d)

Lord Dalhousie

5.

________ was responsible for introducing English Medium of education

a)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

b)

Lord Dalhousie

c)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

d)

William Jones

6.

_________ found the Calcutta Madrassa in _____

a)

William Jones, 1781

b)

Warren Hastings, 1781

c)

John Stuart Mills, 1781

d)

Shaukat Ali, 1871

7.

_________ Commission was set up in ______to set up rural universities.

a)

Ramakrishnan, 1984

b)

Radhkrishnan , 1984

c)

Radhakrishnan, 1948

d)

Ravikrishnan, 1948

8.

_________ set up the Visva Bharati University

a)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

b)

Radhakrishnan

c)

Rabindranath Tagore

d)

Aurobindo Ghosh

9.

The Commission which suggested that th govt. should exercise control over all universities and colleges

a)

The Indian Education Commission

b)

The University Education Commission

c)

The Indian University Commission

d)

The University Commission of India

10.

he RTE Act was enacted in _______

a)

2000

b)

2001

c)

2009

d)

2010

11.

____ formulated the idea to set up the The Bengal National College in Calcutta.

a)

Satish Chandra Mukherjee

b)

Rabindranath Tagore

c)

Hartog

d)

Gokhale

12.

Identify the monument

a)

Victoria Terminus

b)

Hindu College

c)

Elphinstone College

d)

Asiatic Libraray

13.

Those who supported English as a medium of instruction.

a)

Orientalist

b)

English

c)

Anglicist

d)

Liberals

14.

_____ provided Hindu religious education

a)

Gurukul

b)

Pathshala

c)

Madrasa

d)

School

15.

Non Cooperation Movement was introduced in _____

a)

1921

b)

1920

c)

1932

d)

1923

16.

Shantiniketan means _____

a)

Abode of heaven

b)

Abode of love

c)

Abode of education

d)

Abode of peace

17.

Vernacular middle schools should be established in rural area. This was based of _________

a)

Gokhale's Resolution

b)

Hartog Committee

c)

Sadler Commission

d)

RTE

18.

He was the first Principal of the Bengal National College in Calcutta

a)

Aravind Ghosh

b)

Aurobindo Bose

c)

Aurobindo Ghosh

d)

Aravindo Bose

19.

The company's main objective was to produce ____ for the English Government

a)

officers

b)

typists

c)

managers

d)

clerks

20.

______ recommended minimum qualification to get admission to universities in ____

a)

Gokhale's Resolution, 1917-1919

b)

Wood's Despatch 1854

c)

National Council of Education 1856

d)

Sadler's Commission 1917-1919