Question

What arguments are given in favour of western education in India ?​

Answer 1

He argued that the aim of education should be to teach what was useful and practical. He was in favour of making the Indians familiar with the scientific and technical advances that the West had made. Thomas Babington Macaulay was another prominent critic of Orientalism.

Answer 2

Answer:

Pre-colonial India is well known for its system of indigenous education.

There existed Gurukulas and Patashalas to promote education of the caste Hindus and Madarasas and Maktabs to promote the education of the Muslim community in India.

This indigenous education gave more stress to scholarship of languages rather than science and technology and by the time the British came to India as traders, Persian was the court language and irrespective of religious faith, both Hindus and Muslims learnt Persian to obtain jobs under the rulers of pre-colonial India.