D. Answer the following questions in brief.
1. What were the proposals of Wood's Despatch of 1854?
2. Highlight any three social evils of Indian society related to women.
3. Describe any three main contributions of Swami Dayanand Saraswati as a social reforme
4. Differentiate between the Anglicist and the Orientalist.
5. Evaluate the efforts made by Indian leaders to improve Indian education.
Answers
Answer:
Ans 1 -(1)The proposals of wood's despatch of 1854 were short liver and prenature.(2)-It was an age of experiment and despatch of 1854 marked a turning point in the Policy of Education in British India.(3)-Woods despatch came to be known after the name of Sir Charles Wood who was the president of the Board of Control.
Explanation:
Ans 2- (1)Female infanticide, killing of infant girls
(2)Marriages of children in small ages was also banned by law in 1891 and again in 1929.
(3)Practice of sati, the burning of a widow in the funeral pyre of her husband.
Ans 3- (1) He established Arya Samaj society of nobles at Bombay and later in Lahore. (2) He also started Shuddhi movement to reconvert Hindus
who had been converted to other religions.
(3)He opposed idol worship,child marriage and caste system.
Ans4- Anglicist were those who favoured English as a medium of instructions. Orientalists were those who favoured Sanskrit and Persia as a medium of instructions.