1. State True or False a. The official language of India before English was Hindi b . Vasco da Gama was from Portugal.... C. The first railway line was laid between Bombay and Thane... d. The British set up the East India Company in 1600... e, Dayanand Saraswati was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj 2. Why do you think the British introduced English language in India? Was it solely for the benefit of the Indians? 3. How was Raja Rammohan Roy different from Dayanand Saraswati in their views?
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a. The official languages of British India were English, Urdu and later Hindi, with English being used for purposes at the central level.
b. Vasco da Gama, Portuguese Vasco da Gama, 1er conde da Vidigueira, (born c. 1460, Sines, Portugal—died December 24, 1524, Cochin, India), Portuguese navigator whose voyages to India (1497–99, 1502–03, 1524) opened up the sea route from western Europe to the East by way of the Cape of Good Hope.
C. The first railway completed in India was a 21 mile-long line of track running between Bombay and Thane, which opened in 1853. While seemingly a modest breakthrough, everyone knew that it was the prelude to a revolution – a pan-Indian Railway network.
d. The East India Company was incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600. It was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India.
e. The Brahmo Samaj was a monotheistic sect of Hinduism. The movement began through meetings of Bengalis in Calcutta in 1828. One of the leading figures was Ram Mohun Roy. This group was known as the BrahmoIndians..
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2. It was to make the Indians, especially the sepoys 'disloyal' to their own language and culture. They didn't like our traditional language and that's why they wanted to destroy our language. ... Hence,British introduced English language to Indians.
It was to make the Indians, especially the sepoys 'disloyal' to their own language and culture. The British were acutely aware of the danger posed by regional education. They realized that if the Indian sepoys of the British Army continued learning in their own languages, they would turn against the British someday
3. Roy was a more influenced by the Islamic and Christian cultures. He opposed Sanskrit education and considered it as a waste of resources. He promoted English and Science education. While Dayanand Saraswati supported Sanskrit education as the symbol of India's great past and Hindi education as the symbol of nationalism.