Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal ?
William Jones
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Nathaniel Halhed
All of these
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
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
Madarsa was set up in Calcutta in the year
1750
1761
1771
1781
Asiatick Researches (Journal) was NOT started by
William Carey
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
"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