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Dear student,

iv) A Madrasa was set up in Calcutta in 1781 to promote the study of (b) Arabic. Besides Arabic, to promote the study of Persian and Islamic law also, that Madrasa was set up.

v) The English education Act was introduced in the year: (b) 1835.

Q.3.

  1. The statement that “William Jones was an expert in law as well as a linguist” is true.
  2. The statement that “Rabindranath Tagore said that western education focused on reading and writing rather than oral knowledge” is true.
  3. “Orientalists opposed the learning of Sanskrit and Arabic texts” this statement is false.
  4. ‘Pathshalas is an Arabic word for a place of learning’ is false because Pathshala is a Sanskrit word.
  5. “A single shelf of a good European library was worth the literature of India and Arabia, where the speaker is James Mill” is false because it was said by Macaulay.

Q. 1. The picture is of Henry Thomas Colebrooke who was a scholar of Sanskrit and ancient sacred writings of Hinduism.

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