The English Education in India was introduced on the advice of _______.

William Bentinck

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Macaulay

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Sir Charles Wood

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Dalhousie

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The correct option is A William Bentinck
Thomas Babington Macaulay, who is generally regarded as the architect of the system of education inIndiaduring the British rule, was a great essayist, historian, linguist, orator, politician, statesman and thinker.English was introduced by Lord Willaim Bentinck as a medium of higher education in India on the advice of Thomas Babington Macaulay who was also his council member.

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