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C. Answer in one word or phrase :
1. What type of educational institutions were available for the Hindus when the British arrived?

2. Who set up the madrasa at Calcutta in 1781?
3. What language did Lord Macaulay recommend as the medium of instruction in India?
4. When did Sir Charles Wood send his despatch?
5. What educational institution did Rabindranath Tagore set up?
6. Name any two educational institutions established to promote national education.

D. Answer the questions in brief :
1. What was the indigenous system of education in India before the British arrived here?
2. Why could the annual expenditure granted by the Charter Act of 1813 not be utilised in India for a
long time?
3. What was the controversy between Orientalists and missionaries?

4. What was the effect of Sir Charles Wood’s despatch?
5. How is education connected with power and cultural identity?
6. Discuss the impact of English education in India.

E. Answer the questions in detail :
1. What were the important recommendations of Sir Charles Wood’s despatch?
2. What is national education? How did it grow?
3. What were the shortcomings of English education?

4. What were the positive effects of the spread of English education?
5. State the causes of the decline of the indigenous system.
6. What were the factors for making English as the medium of instruction in India?

1. In what ways did the British hope to benefit by giving the Indians western education?

2. How was the British education system different from what we have today?

Nai Talim

Nai Talim is a principal which states that knowledge and work are not separate. Mahatma Gandhi
promoted an educational curriculum with the same name based on this pedagogical principal. He said
that western education created a sense of inferiority and enslaved Indians. Gandhiji wanted a system of
education which would help Indians to regain their sense of dignity and pride. He wanted Indians to
develop self-respect for their own culture and education. Gandhiji believed that English education had
made Indians stranger in their own land. It had alienated Indian leaders from their masses.
He stressed on oral knowledge rather then reading from the textbooks followed by writing which the
English emphasised. According to Gandhiji, craft, art, health and education should all be integrated into
one scheme. This scheme was called Nai Talim (New Education Programme). He wanted Indians to
develop their own education institution to promote national education.

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