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EXERCISES
embering and Understanding Skills
Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
a) In pre-British India, Islamic education was conducted in
b) The Calcutta Madrasa was set up by
-) The Aligarh Muslim University was set up by
:) Satish Chandra Mukherjee instituted the
) The founder of Shantiniketan was
hoose the correct answer.
Who was the author of the 'Memorandum on Indian Education?
Answers
Answer:
a) Hastings
Hastings took the initiative to set up the Calcutta Madrasa, and believed that the ancient customs of the country and Oriental learning ought to be the basis of British rule in India.
b) Warren Hastings
In this context, Calcutta Madrasah, the first educational institution was set up in the Indian subcontinent by Warren Hastings, the then Governor General of East India Company in 1870. It became a leading center of Islamic and Muslims' education.
c) Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Universities in Uttar Pradesh are Aligarh Muslim University (1875), founded by Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan; Banaras Hindu University (1916) in Varanasi, founded by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya; and the University of Lucknow (1921).
d) Founder-editor of the Dawn magazine (1897–1913),
An organ of Indian Nationalism, in 1902 he organised the "Dawn Society" of culture, to protest against the Report of the Indian Universities Commission, representing the inadequate university education imposed by the Government to fabricate clerks for the merchant.
e) Debendranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, Shantiniketan was founded and developed by members of the Tagore family. It was founded by Debendranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore wrote many of his literary classics at Santiniketan.