INDIAN SCHOOL AL WADI AL KABIR

Class: VIII Department: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Worksheet No: 9 Topic: CIVILIZING THE NATIVE, Year: 2021-22
EDUCATING THE NATION (HISTORY)
I Multiple choice:
1 The name associated with the establishment of the Serampore Mission
(a) Thomas Macaulay
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrook
(c) William Carey
(d) William Jones
2 William Adam toured in the districts of
(a) Bihar and Orissa
(b) Bihar and Bengal
(c) Bengal and Rajasthan
(d) Orissa and Madhya Pradesh
3 Who attacked the Orientalists?
( a) James Mill
(b) Thomas Macaulay
(c) Both (a) to (b)
(d) None of the above
4 The ideas of William Jones were supported by
(a) James Mill
(b) Thomas Macaulay
(c) Charles Wood
(d) Henry Thomas Colebrook
5 A madrasa was set up in Calcutta in 1781 to promote the study of
(a) Urdu
(b) Arabic
(c) Ancient history of India
(d) Muslim religion
II Fill in the blanks:
6 Rabindranath Tagore started Shanti Niketan in 1901.
7 There was no system of annual examinations in Pathshalas.
8 Many British officials said that knowledge of the East was full of errors and thought it as
unscientific.
9 Wood’s Dispatch emphasized the practical benefits of a system of European learning
10 Thomas Macaulay saw India as an uncivilized country that needed to be civilized.
III State True or False:-
11 James Mill was a severe critic of the Orientalists. True
12 The 1854 Despatch on education was in favour of English being introduced as a medium of higher
education in India. True

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13 Mahatma Gandhi thought that promotion of literacy was the most important aim of education.
False
14 Rabindranath Tagore felt that children ought to be subjected to strict discipline. False
III Answer the following:
15 How were the Oriental institutions like the Calcutta Madrasa and Banaras Sanskrit College viewed
by the British?
These Oriental institutions were viewed as temples of darkness that were falling off themselves
into decay.
16 Name the places where the British established universities.
Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.
17 Name two Indians who reacted against Western education.
Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.
18 What type of education was given to the children in the pathshalas?
Children were given oral education in pathshalas.
19 What do you mean by Tagore’s abode of peace?
Tagore’s Shanti Niketan was established in a rural setting, 100 kilometers away from Calcutta. As
it was far from the din and bustle of the city it was an abode of peace.
20 What measures were taken by the English Education Act of 1835?
The following measures were taken under the English Education Act 1835:
• English was made the medium of instruction for higher education.
• Promotion of Oriental institutions like the Calcutta Madrasa and Banaras Sanskrit College
was stopped.
• These institutions were seen as temples of darkness that were falling of themselves into
decay.
• English textbooks began to be produced for schools.
21 What were the views of other Company officials?
• Other Company officials did not approve the ideas of the Orientalists.
• They began to criticize the Orientalist- vision of learning.
• They saved that the knowledge of the East was full of errors and unscientific thought.
• They saw Eastern literature as non-serious and light-hearted.
• So, they argued that it was wrong on the part of the British to spend so much effort in
encouraging the study of Arabic and Sanskrit language and literature.
22 What measures were undertaken by the Company to improve the system of vernacular education?
Or
How were the irregularities of pathshalas checked by the Company?
There were no rules and regulations in pathshalas. Hence, the Company decided to improve the
entire system. It took several measures:
• It appointed a number of governments pandits, each in charge of looking after four to five
schools.
• The task of the pandit was to visit the pathshalas and try and improve the standard of
teaching.
• Each guru was asked to submit periodic reports and take classes according to a regular
time table.

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 • Teaching was now to be based on textbooks and learning was to be tested through a
system of annual examination. Students were asked to pay a regular fee, attend regular
classes, sit on fixed seats, and obey the new rules of discipline.
23 What type of education did Mahatma Gandhi want in India?
• Mahatma Gandhi never approved English education because it had created a feeling of inferiority
in the minds of millions of Indians.
• In fact, he wanted an education that could help the people of India restore their sense of dignity
and self-respect. During the time of the national movement he urged students to leave
educational institutions to show the British that they could no longer enslave Indians.
• Mahatma Gandhi never wanted English to be the medium of teaching. Instead he thought that
students ought to be taught in the medium of Indian languages.
• Education in English crippled the people of India. It distanced them from their own surroundings.
It made them alien in their own lands. Hence, he felt that English education ought not to flourish
in India any more.
• He urged that education ought to develop a person’s mind and soul. Simply learning to read and
write did not matter at all. People had to learn a craft and know how different things operated.
This would definitely develop their mind and their capacity to understand.

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