Class 8 History Chapter 8 Civilising The Native, Educating The Nation Quiz 6 (25 MCQs)

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1. Was there any fixed timetable in local pathshala?
2. What were some of the different views on what a national educational system should be?
3. What did Tagore believe about the role of teachers?
4. In Which year was WOODS DESPATCH sent to The Governor-General of India
5. What did Wood's Despatch emphasize about European learning?
6. William Adam was a Scottish missionary.
7. When did the company decide to improve the vernacular education system?
8. A person who can read, write and teach Persian is called a
9. Complete by choosing the most appropriate word from the following list of options. The introduction of ..... brought with it ideas of democracy, liberty, fraternity among the minds of Indians
10. A madrasa was set in the year?
11. In which year were universities established in Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay?
12. The ideas of William Jones were supported by
13. Which British official argued that a single shelf of a good European library was worth all native literature?
14. What did Mahatma Gandhi believe education should focus on?
15. James Mill supported Oriental way of learning and even encouraged the Orientalists
16. What is a madarasa?
17. How did the British attempt to change the pathshala system after 1854?
18. Wood's Dispatch also aimed at clearing ..... of Indian people.
19. Who Toured Districts of Bengal and Bihar in the 1830s
20. When was the 'Sati' system banned?
21. Charles Wood was sent to India in the year?
22. ..... college was established in Calcutta on the banks of river Hooghly.
23. Which year was the English education Act introduced in India?
24. Who said, 'English Education has enslaved us?"
25. What was Mahatma Gandhi's main criticism of colonial education?