{"id":2606,"date":"2025-05-04T20:34:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:05:00","slug":"q-which-of-the-following-led-to-the-introduction-of-english-education-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-which-of-the-following-led-to-the-introduction-of-english-education-in-india","title":{"rendered":"Q. Which of the following led to the introduction of English Education in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Charter Act of 1813<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>General Committee of Public Instruction, 1823<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Orientalist and Anglicist Controversy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Select the correct answer using the code given below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>1 and 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(d) 1, 2 and 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-hd-6816c8623d71d\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/the-charter-act-of-1813-upsc\/\"><strong>Charter Act of 1813<\/strong>:<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The monopoly of EIC was abolished in terms of trade with India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The company still enjoyed the monopoly in terms of tea and china trade for 20 more years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>This act provided a grant of one lakh rupees per annum for the promotion of education in India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This act gave power to local governments to impose and collect taxes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It included a clause asserting the Crown\u2019s undoubted sovereignty over all of the Company\u2019s territories and required it to open up India to Christian missionaries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The<strong>\u00a0Charter Act 1813<\/strong>\u00a0created a controversy between the anglicist and classicist on the medium of instruction and so the fund was kept unspent till 1823 due to the controversy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>General Committee of Public Instruction<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In\u00a0<strong>1823, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/list-of-governors-general-of-bengal-upsc\/\">Governor-General<\/a>-in Council\u00a0<\/strong>appointed a\u00a0<strong>\u201cGeneral Committee of Public Instruction\u201d<\/strong>, which had the responsibility to grant the one lakh of rupees for education.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That committee was headed by\u00a0Lord Macaulay consisting of ten\u00a0European members.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The committee decided to spend major portions from the grant for the improvement of oriental literature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Even, the General Committee of Public Instruction also was not able to decide the medium of instruction by vote; because out of ten members, five were supporters of the English language as the medium of instruction and the rest were supporters of oriental or classic language\u00a0as a medium of instruction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As a President of the General Committee of Public Instruction, Lord Macaulay wrote a minute on 2nd February 1835, where he made the conclusion regarding the controversy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lord Macaulay\u00a0<\/strong>stressed the implementation of the\u00a0<strong>English language<\/strong>\u00a0as a medium of instruction through his minute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Select the correct answer using the code given below: Answer:&nbsp;(d) 1, 2 and 3 Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[42],"years":[55],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-modern-history","years-55"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":42,"label":"Modern History"}],"years":[{"value":55,"label":"2018"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Modern History","slug":"modern-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}