SUBJECT: SOCIALSCIENCE

CLASS VIII
SESSION 2022-23
CH-7 HISTORY CIVILISING THE “NATIVE”,
EDUCATING THE NATION
HANDOUT – 7.2
General Instructions:
 The hand-out is designed to facilitate students to comprehend the concepts properly so that
theycan attempt the topic- related questions given at the end.
 Interactive group discussion will be taken up in the class through the comic strips to elicit the
conceptual understanding from the students.

Recapitulation Answer the following to check your understanding so far:

1. According to Wood’s Despatch, why was it important to promote English Education?
Objective:
You will be able to –
 discuss how the politics of education is linked to questions of power and cultural identity
 to understand the British educational policy and debate regarding medium of education.
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SUB-TOPIC: What happened to the local schools?

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 Consequences of the new rules and routines:

 In the earlier system children from poor peasant families had been able to go to pathshalas, since
the timetable was flexible.
 The discipline of the new system demanded regular attendance, even during harvest time when
children of poor families had to work in the fields.
 Inability to attend school came to be seen as indiscipline, as evidence of the lack of desire to learn.

Activity: 1.Imagine you were born in a poor family in the 1850s. How would you have responded to the
coming of the new system of government- regulated pathshalas?

2. Did you know that about 50 per cent of the children going to primary school drop out of school by the
time they are 13 or 14? Can you think of the various possible reasons for this fact.

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 NOTEBOOK WORK

1. Answer the given question in 30-50 words:

a. Compare the education system of the Pathshalas to that of the education system devised by the British.

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