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Until which year was the East India Company opposed to missionary activity in India?Read the answer and worked solution →The Serampore mission lay in an area controlled by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Serampore's printing press was set up in 1800 and its college in:Read the answer and worked solution →William Adam, who reported on vernacular schools in Bengal and Bihar in the 1830s, was a:Read the answer and worked solution →Adam found how many pathshalas in Bengal and Bihar?Read the answer and worked solution →Aurobindo Ghose spoke on the goal of national education in Bombay on:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi wanted a child's education to begin with:Read the answer and worked solution →Rabindranath Tagore started Santiniketan in:Read the answer and worked solution →Tagore set up his school how far from Calcutta?Read the answer and worked solution →In England, widespread government schooling began with the Education Act of:Read the answer and worked solution →Thomas Arnold, who favoured Greek and Roman classics to discipline the mind, was headmaster of:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the OrientalistsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Anglicist wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the education datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the education wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Oriental or EnglishRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the education thinkersRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Colonial education bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Big landlords or warrior chiefs acknowledged as subordinates by existing kings were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Rashtrakuta chief overthrew his Chalukya overlord in the mid-eighth century?Read the answer and worked solution →The Kadamba Mayurasharman and the Gurjara-Pratihara Harichandra were originally:Read the answer and worked solution →Chola inscriptions refer to more than how many different terms for taxes?Read the answer and worked solution →The most frequently mentioned Chola tax, vetti, was taken in the form of:Read the answer and worked solution →The prashasti describing Pratihara king Nagabhata's exploits was found at:Read the answer and worked solution →Land grants to Brahmanas were recorded on:Read the answer and worked solution →The twelfth-century Sanskrit history of Kashmir's kings was composed by:Read the answer and worked solution →The tripartite struggle was fought for control of which city?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three dynasties fought the tripartite struggle?Read the answer and worked solution →Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni ruled from 997 to:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Until which year was the East India Company opposed to missionary activity in India?

  1. 1857
  2. 1813
  3. 1800
  4. 1835
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Correct answer: B. 1813

1. It feared local reaction against British presence. 2. Opposition lasted until 1813. 3. Missionaries had set up at Serampore under the Danes. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 7, Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation._

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The Serampore mission lay in an area controlled by the:

  1. Portuguese Estado da India
  2. French Compagnie des Indes
  3. Danish East India Company
  4. Dutch East India Company
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Correct answer: C. Danish East India Company

1. The missionaries could not settle in British territory. 2. Serampore was under the Danish East India Company. 3. A press came in 1800 and a college in 1818. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 7, Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation._

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Serampore's printing press was set up in 1800 and its college in:

  1. 1800
  2. 1835
  3. 1857
  4. 1818
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Correct answer: D. 1818

1. William Carey helped establish the mission. 2. The college came in 1818. 3. After 1857 the government was wary of backing missions. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 7, Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation._

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