Local Schools and Orientalists

Q. What do you mean by Colonisation?

1. Subjugation of two country by another country.
   
2. Subjugation of one country by another
   
3. Conquest of one country by another.
   
4. Subjugation of no country by another
   

Q.

Imagine that you are watching the Republic Day parade on TV with a friend and she remarks, “Look at these tribals. They look so exotic. And they seem to be dancing all the time”. List three things that you would tell her about the lives of Adivasis in India.

Q. Some comments about the Orientalist Vision of Learning by the British are given below. Select the one that is not applicable to this particular style of learning. (Tough)

1. British argued that the aim of education ought to be to teach what was useful and practical.
2. British said that knowledge of the east was full of errors and unscientific thoughts
3. British observed that Western literature was non-serious and light hearted.
4. British argued that it is not advisable to encourage the study of Arabic and Sanskrit language and literature

Q. Name the person who was a part of the Scottish missionary who helped to establish the Serampore Mission (Easy)

Q. Which of the following is the journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal?

1. Asiatic Researches
2. Asiatic Journal
3. Asia Languages Journal
4. Indian Culture Researches

Q. William Jones was appointed as a ____.

1. junior judge
2. senior judge
3. barrister
4. linguist

Q. William Adam was an Irish missionary.

1. True
2. False

Q. Who were the two significant Britishers who discovered ancient Indian texts?

1. William Jones and Henry Thomas Colebrooke
2. Henry Thomas Colrebrooke and Nathaniel Halhed
3. Nathaniel Halhed and Warren Hastings
4. William Jones and Nathaniel Halhed

Q. Who established the Asiatic Society of Bengal?

1. Henry Thomas Colebrooke
2. William Jones
3. Nathaniel Halhed
4. Warren Hastings

Q. Which of the following aspects of India interested British to colonise the country?

1. Territory
2. Revenue
3. Culture
4. All of the above

Q. Orientalist method of learning means:

1. Discovery of new texts
2. Understanding the meaning
3. Translation
4. All of the above

Q. William Jones arrived in the year _______.

1. 1783
2. 1786
3. 1883
4. 1886

Q. Why were the ancient sacred and legal texts revived by the British?

1. To enchance Indian culture
2. To resolve conflicts and bring unity
3. To understand India better
4. To appropriate the idea of India

Q. Orientalists are scholars specialising in ___________.

1. language and culture
2. science and technology
3. political science
4. religion

Q. Pathshalas were _________.

1. higher educational institutions
2. small village institutions
3. Gurukulas
4. girls school

Q. William Jones knew which of the following languages?

1. Sanskrit
2. Urdu
3. German
4. Persian
5. Arabic
6. French
7. Greek
8. Latin

Q. Complete the name: Asiatic Society of ______.

1. Bombay
2. Madras
3. Calcutta
4. Bengal

Q. Sacred and legal texts of the ______ period of India were revived by the British to understand India comprehensively.

1. ancient
2. medeival
3. Mughal
4. modern

Q. how did India become a Colony of British

Q. The Supreme court during the British rule was situated in _______.

1. Bombay
2. Bengal
3. Calcutta
4. Madras

Q.

what was non bramin movement ?

Q. Which of the following was not done to the Indian texts by British scholars?

1. Discovery of ancient texts
2. Understanding the meaning
3. Translation
4. Intellectual theft