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Question
Answer the following question:
Why did the English East India Company feel the need for educational; reforms?
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Solution
The first objective of education in India was to form a class of interpreters between the British rulers and the millions of Indians they governed. The second objective was to create a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour but British in taste, opinion, morals, and intellect. The third objective was to obtain a cheap supply of clerks for holding subordinate posts in the administration and British business concerns.
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Match the Column:
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Permanent Settlement | (a) encouraged the education of Indians |
| 2. Shipbuilding industry | (b) Lord Dalhousie |
| 3. Lord Macaulay | (c) Fixed revenue |
| 4. Charter Act of 1813 | (d) Anglicist |
| 5. Transport and communication development | (e) Vishakhapatnam |
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The English took interest in education of Indians only because they needed low paid, English speaking clerks.
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