Social Science Question(1 Marks)

Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were known as Orientalists.

Hindu College was established in Benaras in 1791 to encourage the study of ancient Sanskrit texts that would be useful for the administration of the country.

Teaching was oral, and the guru decided what to teach, in accordance with the needs of the students.

Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.

The word munshi was used for a person who can read, write and teach Persian.

The government pandits were assigned by the company to visit the pathshalas and try and improve the standard of teaching.

In some places classes were held under a banyan tree, in other places in the corner of a village shop or temple, or at the guru’s home.

Measures taken by the English Education Act of 1835 were:

1. English was made the medium of instruction for higher education.
2. Promotion of Oriental institutions like the Calcutta Madrasa and Benaras Sanskrit College was stopped. These institutions were seen as “temples of darkness that were falling of themselves into decay”.
3. English textbooks began to be produced for schools.

In the 1830s, William Adam, a Scottish missionary, toured the districts of Bengal and Bihar.

It was because rural children had to work in the fields during harvest time.

Mahatma Gandhi.

Thomas Babington Macaulay saw India as an uncivilised country that needed to be civilised.

William Carey was a Scottish missionary who helped establish the Serampore Mission.

Jones set up the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and started a journal called Asiatick Researches.

Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.

Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.

After 1854 the Company decided to improve the system of vernacular education.

False.

He viewed his school as an abode of peace where living in harmony with nature, children would cultivate their natural creativity.

According to Mahatma Gandhi, education ought to develop a person’s mind and soul. People had to work with their hands, learn craft and know how to operate different things. This would develop their mind and their capacity to understand.

Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.

Warren Hastings.

Linguist is someone who knows and studies several languages.

Calcutta Madrasa was set up to promote the study of Arabic, Persian and Islamic law.

Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were called Orientalists.

James Mill and Thomas Babington Macaulay.

Mahatma Gandhi.

Madrasa was set up in Calcutta in 1781 to promote the study of Arabic, Persian and Islamic law.

True.

Classes were not held during harvest time in pathshala system because rural children had to work in the fields during harvest time.

True.

The Hindu College was established in Benaras to encourage the study of ancient Sanskrit texts that would be useful for the administration of the country.

False.

Warren Hastings set up the Calcutta Madrasa and believed that the ancient customs of the country and Oriental learning ought to be the basis of British rule in India.

Greek, Latin, English, French, Arabic and Persian.

Vernacular is a term generally used to refer to a local language or dialect as distinct from what is seen as the standard language.

Madrasa is an Arabic word for a place of learning; any type of school or college.

These Oriental institutions were viewed as temples of darkness that were falling of themselves into decay.

The Company assigned the pandit to visit the pathshalas and try to improve the standard of teaching.