Read the following extract (Sources 2 and 3) answer the questions that follow:
An argument for European knowledge
Wood’s Despatch 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.
(i) When did Wood’s Despatch come in light?
(ii) What type of education did the Despatch want to extend in India?
(i) Wood’s Despatch came in light in 1854.
(ii) The Despatch advocated for European learning, because it was the only way to make Indians perfect in all sense. It would introduce them the European ways of life and would change their tastes and desires.