{"id":2616,"date":"2025-05-04T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:22:26","slug":"q-regarding-woods-dispatch-which-of-the-following-statements-are-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-regarding-woods-dispatch-which-of-the-following-statements-are-true","title":{"rendered":"Q. Regarding Wood\u2019s Dispatch, which of the following statements are true?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Grants-in-Aid system was introduced.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Establishment of universities was recommended.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. English as a medium of instruction at\u00a0all levels<\/strong>\u00a0of education was recommended.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Select the correct answer using the code given below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 1 and 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Answer:<\/strong> (a) 1 and 2 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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      • Wood\u2019s Dispatch, also known as the \u201cMagna Carta of English Education in India<\/strong>,\u201d was a landmark document that\u00a0outlined educational reforms for India in 1854<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • It was sent by\u00a0Sir Charles Wood,\u00a0<\/strong>President of the Board of Control for India,\u00a0to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The dispatch aimed\u00a0to establish a systematic, modern education system<\/strong>\u00a0in India, influencing the development of education for many years to come.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Sir Charles supported the\u00a0use of regional languages in primary education, the Anglo-vernacular in secondary education, and English as the primary language of teaching in higher education.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The aim of education was stated as\u00a0diffusion of European Arts, Science, Philosophy and Literature through English<\/strong>.\u00a0Promotion of Indian languages<\/strong>\u00a0was also to be encouraged. \u201cCreation of a class of public servants<\/strong>\u201d, was the important objective. For this purpose, expansion of mass education was given priority.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The Wood\u2019s Dispatch, for the first time, recommended the\u00a0creation of a Department of Public Instruction in each of the five provinces of Bengal, Bombay, Madras, Punjab and the North Western province.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • For higher education, a scheme\u00a0to establish universities<\/strong>\u00a0was formulated along with total organizational set up. They were to conduct examinations and offer degrees in various subjects and languages. This led to the establishment of the\u00a0first three universities in 1857, at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The Dispatch made important recommendations on most of the aspects of education like\u00a0establishing network of graded schools all over the country\u00a0<\/strong>such as elementary schools, high schools, intermediate, colleges and university, etc.,\u00a0grant in aid system for financial support<\/strong>\u00a0to schools, provision for women education, training and professional development of teachers, establishment of medical, engineering law and other institutes of professional education\u00a0to develop vocational efficiency of people.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Select the correct answer using the code given below: Answer: (a) 1 and 2 only 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-2616","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\/2616","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=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}