What do you think Rashid had in mind when he said that education was only
an impetus to the achievement of “political consciousness”?
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What a very peculiar name!” Sir William Jones pondered the name of the ship that had carried him for five months from England to India. He and his wife Anna Maria were now travelling up Hooghly, on their way to Calcutta.
2. India was so new to them-her skies, seas, birds and animals were so alien, “Oh! look, there’s a tiger, come down to drink water from the river!” Anna Maria had pointed out with awe and delight. She was excited as her husband decided to move to this new country. For Sir William Jones, this journey satisfied a deep-seated longing, for he was obsessed with this land. India- her literature, beauty and history had attracted him for years.
3. Indeed the whole of Asia, and many were the hours he had spent, reading every book he could lay his hands on. Yet, to his starved mind, there seemed to be so little material. He began to prepare a document, setting out everything he wished to study.
4. “The history of the ancient world, traditions, modern politics and geography of Hindustan,” he added, ‘’Indians, agriculture, medicine, wild life, natural products of India……” the list went on.
.Choose ONE word from the passage which means the same as the following:
creature from outside world (para 2) please answer