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Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 2018UPSC 2020
What to Study: Who set up each of these three institutions, where and in which year? Remember what was studied at the Madrasah and the Sanskrit College, and why Fort William College was started.
What to Study: Why did the Company support classical learning at first? Think about the practical needs of its administration. Then learn who pressed for Western education and why, and how the motives of enlightened Indians and missionaries differed. What part did the Serampore missionaries play?
Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 2018
What to Study: What did the Charter Act of 1813 ask the Company to do for education, and what yearly sum was set aside? Remember the year the money was actually made available. Understand what caused the delay.
Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 1996UPSC 2009
What to Study: Which Indian efforts led to the setting up of the Hindu College (also called Calcutta College), and what did it teach? Remember the Indian leader linked with it. Also know where the government set up its three Sanskrit colleges.
Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 2018
What to Study: In which body did this dispute arise? What did the Orientalists and the Anglicists each want the government to spend on? Be clear about how the Anglicists split over the medium of instruction. Understand the confusion between a language as a medium and as a subject of study.
Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 1997
What to Study: Which side did Macaulay's Minute favour? Remember the medium of instruction and the kind of learning it supported with government money. Understand Macaulay's view of Indian learning, and what the policy did to schools and to mass education.
What to Study: What is the downward filtration theory? You should be able to explain which class was to be educated, what role it was to play, and how knowledge was meant to reach the masses. Remember the well-known phrase used to describe this class.
What to Study: Through which channels did modern ideas reach ordinary people, even when education did not? Explain the two sides of modern education: how it helped nationalists, and how its content and structure still served colonial interests.
What to Study: Remember the officer's post, the region and the period of this scheme. Know the language used in the village schools, the practical subjects taught, and the departments for which staff were being trained.
Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 1996
What to Study: Who prepared the Despatch, in which year, and by what label is it widely known? Understand why it is seen as a landmark. How did it go against the downward filtration theory, at least on paper?
Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 1997UPSC 2003UPSC 2018
What to Study: What were the main recommendations of Wood's Despatch? Remember the ladder of institutions from village schools to universities, and the towns that got universities. Be clear about the medium of instruction at each level. Learn its stand on women's education, vocational education, teachers' training, religion in government institutions and help to private effort.
Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 1996
What to Study: Which universities were set up in 1857, and what new bodies were created in the provinces? Remember the Bethune School, which came earlier, out of the women's education movement of the 1840s–50s. Know its founding year and Bethune's part in girls' schools. Understand how the Despatch shaped education for the next five decades.