what was woods dispatch?
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Answer:
Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control, had an important effect on spreading English learning and female education in India.
Commissioned by: President of the Board of Control of India
Purpose: To hasten the development of education in British India
Subject: Education
Created: 1854
Author(s): Sir Charles Wood
Answer:
the President of the Board of Control, had an important effect on spreading English learning and female education in India. When in 1854 he sent a dispatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India, Wood suggested that primary schools must adopt vernacular languages, high schools must adopt Anglo-vernacular language and at college-level English should be the medium of education. This is known as Wood's despatch. Vocational and women's education were also stressed upon.
Wood's Despatch
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Sir Charles Wood
Created
1854
Commissioned by
President of the Board of Control of India
Author(s)
Sir Charles Wood
Media type
paper
Subject
Education
Purpose
To hasten the development of education in British India
One of the most favourable steps taken was to create an English class among Indian people to be used as workforce in the company's administration.
The British had initiated the best developmental activities during this phase as it was the final phase where the British brought social reforms. After this period their policies tended to become reactionary.
Wood's Dispatch is called Magna Carta of English Education in India.
It came in July 1854 by Charles Wood