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Practice Time Tick() the correct answers. 1. Complete the following sentence. Mahatma Gandhi felt that the ought to be the medium of teaching (a) Sanskrit (b) Arabic (c) Indian languages (d) English 2. A list of reasons as to why Sir Syed Ahmed Khan started the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College are given below. Which among the following are not valid reasons? (a) He wanted to propagate Islam (b) His aim was to combine Western thinking with Islamic values He wanted Urdu to be the main language of India (C) (d) He wanted the Muslims to be given importance as he felt they were sidelined 3. The British wanted to introduce the Western system of education in India because- (a) they wanted the Indian people to progress (b) they needed educated Indian people to help them run their administration (c) they wanted to be seen as benign rulers (d) they truly felt the Indians deserved the best education 4. Maharaja Sayajirao established a university in the princely state of (a) Hyderabad (b) Baroda © (c) Kathiawar (d) Jamnagar 5. The Orientalists established the- (b) Benaras Hindu College (a) Calcutta Madarsa (d) Calcutta University (c) Asiatic Society of Bengal 6. William Adam was asked to prepare a report on the working of - (b) Sanskrit school (a) higher education institutions (d) Vernacular school (c) Madarsas Social Studies-8 (Textbook)​

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1.) c. Indian languages

2.) d. He wanted the the Muslims to be given importance as he felt they were sidelined.

3.) d. They truly felt the Indians deserved the best education.

4.) The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU), formerly Baroda College is a public university in the city of Vadodara, in Gujarat state,India. Originally established as a college in 1881, it became a university in 1949 after the indpendence of the country.

5.) c. Asiatic Society of Bengal.

6.) The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh, learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age.