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Q21) Consider the following statements
i) Macaulays’ Minute was based on the principle of education for all
ii) Woods’ Despatch advocated for education for few
Which of the above is/are correct?
Q21) Consider the following statements
i) Macaulays’ Minute was based on the principle of education for all
ii) Woods’ Despatch advocated for education for few
Which of the above is/are correct?
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The correct option is D d) Neither i nor ii
Ans (d)
Lord Macaulay was appointed as the first law member of the Governor General-in-council as per the provisions of the Charter Act of 1833. He was also appointed as the president of the General Committee of Public Instruction. He was entrusted to settle the dispute between Orientalists & Anglicists. He is credited as the man who brought the English language and the British education to India. He wrote this minute in Feb 1835. It recommended that English be promoted as the lingua franca and the medium of education in India“A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India & Arabia”
“We want to create a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, morals, and in intellect”. This class of enlightened intermediaries would then revive and modernize vernacular languages like Bengali, Urdu and Hindi to educate the masses. He predicted that as an Indian intelligentsia arose, it would work to “refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from western nomenclature and to render them as vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population”. i.e. he advocated education for the few who would educate the masses. This theory is known as Downward Filtration theory or Trickle Down theory. He saw the teaching of English as a channel for transmission of European knowledge into the vernaculars and through them down to the wide mass of Indian population. But the vernacular must grow organically out of the new learning, rather than by government paying a few authors to produce books in those languages. He advocated to stop the printing of Arabic & Sanskrit books and to abolish the Madrasa and Sanskrit College at Calcutta and to retain the Sanskrit College at Banaras (Banaras was the seat of Brahminical learning) and the Mohammadan College at Delhi (Delhi was the seat of Arabic learning). The recommendations were accepted by William Bentinck (Governor General of India) in March 1835. English was made the court language in 1837. A government resolution of 1844 threw high posts open to Indians. These measures resulted in a rapid growth of English education. By 1838, when he went back to Britain, his committee had established 40 English-Medium schools which were open to all regardless of caste. The new schools led to the foundation of new universities.
His other contribution is drafting of the Criminal Procedure Code, thus bringing a rational legal system
Wood’s Despatch gave the recommendation of Education for All
Ans (d)
Lord Macaulay was appointed as the first law member of the Governor General-in-council as per the provisions of the Charter Act of 1833. He was also appointed as the president of the General Committee of Public Instruction. He was entrusted to settle the dispute between Orientalists & Anglicists. He is credited as the man who brought the English language and the British education to India. He wrote this minute in Feb 1835. It recommended that English be promoted as the lingua franca and the medium of education in India“A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India & Arabia”
“We want to create a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, morals, and in intellect”. This class of enlightened intermediaries would then revive and modernize vernacular languages like Bengali, Urdu and Hindi to educate the masses. He predicted that as an Indian intelligentsia arose, it would work to “refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from western nomenclature and to render them as vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population”. i.e. he advocated education for the few who would educate the masses. This theory is known as Downward Filtration theory or Trickle Down theory. He saw the teaching of English as a channel for transmission of European knowledge into the vernaculars and through them down to the wide mass of Indian population. But the vernacular must grow organically out of the new learning, rather than by government paying a few authors to produce books in those languages. He advocated to stop the printing of Arabic & Sanskrit books and to abolish the Madrasa and Sanskrit College at Calcutta and to retain the Sanskrit College at Banaras (Banaras was the seat of Brahminical learning) and the Mohammadan College at Delhi (Delhi was the seat of Arabic learning). The recommendations were accepted by William Bentinck (Governor General of India) in March 1835. English was made the court language in 1837. A government resolution of 1844 threw high posts open to Indians. These measures resulted in a rapid growth of English education. By 1838, when he went back to Britain, his committee had established 40 English-Medium schools which were open to all regardless of caste. The new schools led to the foundation of new universities.
His other contribution is drafting of the Criminal Procedure Code, thus bringing a rational legal system
Wood’s Despatch gave the recommendation of Education for All
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