FASGN/ SOCIAL SCIENCE /VIII

CH 7 – civilising the native and Educating the Nation. WORKSHEET

(HISTORY)

VERY SHORT QUESTIONS (1)

Q.1. Match the following:
a) Madrasa in Calcutta (i) 1835
b) Banaras Hindu College (ii) 1781
c) Macaulay Minute (iii) 1854
d) Wood’s Despatch (iv) 1791
Q.2. Name two individuals who sharply attacked the Orientalists.
Q.3. What did Thomas Macaulay urge the British government in India?
Q.4. Name the places where the British established universities.
Q.5. What subjects were taught at Santiniketan?

SHORT QUESTIONS (3)

Q.6. Write the difference between Vernacular education and European
education.
Q.7. What measures were taken by the English Education Act of 1835?
Q.8. Read the following extract (Sources Base Ques)
A) Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 marked the final triumph of those who
opposed Oriental learning. It stated:
We must emphatically declare that the education which we desire to
see extended in India is that which has for its object the diffusion of
the improved arts, services, philosophy, and literature of Europe, in
short, European knowledge.
Questions:
(i) When did Wood’s Dispatch come in light? (1)
(ii) What type of education did the Dispatch want to extend in India?
(2)
 B) By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child
and man—body, mind and spirit. Literacy is not the end of education
nor even the beginning. It is only one of the means whereby man and
woman can be educated. Literacy in itself is not education. I would
therefore begin the child’s education by teaching it a useful
handicraft and enabling it to produce from the moment it begins its
training. I hold that the highest development of the mind and the
soul is possible under such a system of . education. Only every
handicraft has to be taught not merely mechanically as is done today
but scientifically, i.e. the child should know the why and the
wherefore of every process.
Questions:
(i) How does Mahatma Gandhi view literacy? (1)
(ii) Why does he give so much emphasis on learning a useful
handicraft? (2)

LONG QUESTIONS (5)

Q.9. What measures were undertaken by the Company to improve the
system of vernacular education?
Q.10. What was the report of William Adam about education in vernacular
school in the 1830s?
Q.11. In what sense does Gandhiji and Tagore’s thoughts were different
about western education?
Q.12. why did many company officials in India want to promote Indian
rather than western learning?