Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation Class 8 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. Charles Wood despatch was also known as:

2. The Education Act was introduced in the year

3. In 1830’s a Scottish missionary who toured the districts of Bengal and Bihar was:

4. Asiatick Researches (Journal) was NOT started by

5. Who was Charles Wood?

6. According to whom, “English education had enslaved Indians”?

7. What would you call a person who knows several languages ?

8. The English Education Act was passed

9. Complete by choosing the most appropriate word from the following list of options. The introduction of ………………………….. brought with it ideas of democracy, liberty, fraternity among the minds of Indians

10. Madrasa was set up in, Calcutta in the year

11. William Jones was a linguist because

12. Hindu College was established in Benaras in:

13. The temples of darkness that were falling of themselves into decay. Who said these words about the Calcutta Madrasa and Benares Sanskrit College?

14. Name the person who arrived in Calcutta in 1783 and was appointed as junior judge at the Supreme Court.

15. Study of which of the following was NOT the purpose of setting up Madrasa in Calcutta in 1781?

16. What type of school did Tagore want to set up?

17. Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal?

18. Who started the journal Asiatick Researches?

19. Tagore wanted to combine the elements of ……………………. with traditional Indian Education.

20. Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were known as: