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The Wood’s Despatch recommendations were: 1. An education department was to be set in every province. 2. Universities on the model of the London U...
Thomas Babington Macaulay was instrumental in creating the foundations of bilingual colonial India, by convincing the Governor-General to adopt Englis...
The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded by the renowned English jurist Sir William Jones. He brought Asian languages, literature, arts, and sciences...
In 1783, William Jones came to India as a junior judge, to work in the Supreme Court set up by the East India Company. In addition to being a lawyer J...
(i) It is a village pathshala. (ii) The system of education that existed here was flexible. There were no rules and regulations. There were no roll-...
(i) He is Heniy Thomas Colebrooke. (ii) He was a great scholar of Sanskrit and ancient sacred writings of Hinduism.
(i) According to Mahatma Gandhi literacy in itself is not education. It is not the end of education nor even the beginning. It is only one of the mean...
(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...
Rabindranath Tagore, like Mahatma Gandhi, also did not approve Western education wholeheartedly. At the time when several Indians urged the British to...
Mahatma Gandhi never approved English education because it had created a feeling of inferiority in the minds of millions of Indians. In fact he wanted...
There were no rules and regulations in pathshalas. Hence, the Company decided to improve the entire system. It took several measures: It appoint...
There were no rules and regulations in pathshalas. Hence, the Company decided to improve the entire system. It took several measures: It appoin...
The Court of Directors of the East India Company in London sent an educational despatch to the Governor- General in India in the year 1854. As the des...
Both Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi thought about education in similar ways. But there were differences too. Gandhiji was highly critical of Western civili...
(i) a = 10, d = 10 Let us consider, the Arithmetic Progression series be a1, a2, a3, a4, a5 … a1 = a = 10 a2 = a1+d = 10+10 = 20 a3 = a2+d = 2...
We know that if Rs. P is deposited at r % compound interest per annum for n years, the amount of money will be: P(1+r/100)n Therefore, after each ...
Cost of digging a well for first metre = Rs.150 Cost of digging a well for first 2 metres = Rs.150+50 = Rs.200 Cost of digging a well for first 3 ...
Let the volume of air in a cylinder, initially, be V litres. In each stroke, the vacuum pump removes 1/4th of air remaining in the cylinder at a tim...
We can write the given condition as; Taxi fare for 1 km = 15 Taxi fare for first 2 kms = 15+8 = 23 Taxi fare for first 3 kms = 23+8 = 31 Taxi ...
Let the length and breadth of the park be l and b. Perimeter of the rectangular park = 2 (l + b) = 80 So, l + b = 40 Or, b = 40 – l Area of th...