Answer in one word.
1. Someone who knows and understand several languages.
2. A journal started by Henry Thomas and Nathaniel Halhed.
3. An Arabic word for a place of learning like a school/college.
4. A person who can read, write and teach Persian language.
5. A person who attacked the oriental vision of learning.
6. "A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of
India and Arabia." Who said this?
7. A Scottish missionary who helped to establish the Serampore Mission?
8. Who started the Santiniketan in 1901?
Answers
1)If you understood everything you just read, you're probably a polyglot — a person who understands multiple languages. There are thousands of languages spoken in the world, but you don't need to know them all to be a polyglot.
2)Asiatic Researches
The three Englishmen William Jones , Henry Thomas Colebrooke and Nathaniel Halhed together set up the Asiatic Society of Bengal and also started a journal called Asiatic Researches which was based on their researches on Indian heritage.
3) madrasah
Thus, madrasah literally means "a place where learning and studying take place" or "place of study".
4)Munshi
Munshi is the correct answer. A person who can read write and teach Persian is called Munshi
5)Some of the British officers began to criticize the Orientalise vision of learning. They disapproved heavily this British effort to encourage the study of Indian languages and literature. The two orientalists are James mill and Thomas Babington Macaulay were the persons who attacked the Orientalists.
6)Macaulay
“A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia,” Macaulay wrote in the Minute.
7)Serampore Mission (1800-1845) India's first Christian missionary organisation. william carey and his two associates established this mission on 10 January 1800. ... william carey established this Church and the mission on 17 August 1761
8)Rabindranath Tagore
On 22nd December 1901, Rabindranath Tagore established his school at Santiniketan with five students (including his eldest son) and an equal number of teachers. He originally named it Brahmacharya Ashram in the tradition of ancient forest hermitages.