"Western education focused on reading and writing rather than oral knowledge; it valued text books rather than lived experience and practical knowledge" - whose words are these?
Mahatma Gandhi
Tilak
Lala Lajpat Rai
Rabindranath Tagore
Which language was NOT the purpose of setting up Madarsa in Calcutta in 1781?
Arabian
Sanskrit
Persian
Islamic laws
According to Adam's report there were over 1 lakh ___________ in Bengal and Bihar.
Madrasas
Munshi's
Gurukuls
Pathshalas
Who said this " Education means an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man-body, mind and spirit"?
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
None of these
Madarsa was set up in Calcutta in the year
1750
1761
1771
1781
Who was Charles Wood?
The President of the Board of Control of the Company
Vice Commissioner of the Board of Control of the Company
An Educationist
None of the above
_________ was the strongest critics of Orientalists.
William Jones
James Mill
Hentry Thomas Colebrooke
Who was appointed as the Supreme Court Judge of the East India Company in 1783?
William Carey
Thomas Colobrooke
Charles Wood
The English Education Act was passed
To materialise Macaulay's thinking
To make the English the medium of instruction for higher education
To stop the promotion of oriental institutions
All of the above
