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Development of Modern Education and the Press - Short Trick

Education commissions, institutions, press laws and newspaper founders — one sentence each

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  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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Education Policies and Commissions

From the Charter of 1813 to the Kothari Commission — the order and the key point of each.

Pairs

Early policies

2 sentences

A chart shows one lakh.

Charter Act (1813)=At least ₹1 lakh a year for education — the first government money for it

The macaw speaks English.

Macaulay’s Minute (2 February 1835)=Western learning through English · Downward Filtration Theory · accepted by Bentinck (March 1835)

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Education dispatches, commissions and plans

➜ by year

1854–1917Woody hurried to the rally on a saddle.

1929–1964Hari warmed Sarita’s radish kofta.

  1. 1Wood’s Dispatch1854
  2. 2Hunter Commission1882
  3. 3Raleigh Commission1902
  4. 4Sadler Commission1917–19
  5. 5Hartog Committee1929
  6. 6Wardha Scheme1937
  7. 7Sargent Plan1944
  8. 8Radhakrishnan Commission1948–49
  9. 9Kothari Commission1964–66
Pairs

The key point of each

9 sentences

Woody ate Maggi fifty-seven times.

Wood’s Dispatch (1854)=“Magna Carta of English education in India” · universities of Calcutta, Bombay, Madras 1857 · grants-in-aid · an education department in each province

A hunter cut the primary school ribbon.

Hunter Commission (1882)=Under Ripon · reviewed only primary and secondary education

At the rally the university curtain fell.

Raleigh Commission (1902)=Under Curzon, Sir Thomas Raleigh · led to the Indian Universities Act 1904

A saddle cost twelve rupees in Calcutta.

Sadler Commission (1917–19)=Calcutta University · 12 years of school, a 3-year degree after the intermediate

Hari made the primary school wall strong.

Hartog Committee (1929)=Consolidate primary education · selective university admission

Warm clothes from charkha yarn

Wardha Scheme (1937)=Gandhiji’s basic education — learning through productive handwork · Zakir Hussain committee

Sarita wants free school from six to fourteen.

Sargent Plan (1944)=Universal, free, compulsory education for ages 6–14 · Sir John Sargent

A radio played all night in the university library.

Radhakrishnan Commission (1948–49)=University education · recommended the UGC (set up 1953, statutory 1956)

The kofta menu is in three languages.

Kothari Commission (1964–66)=Led to the National Policy on Education 1968 — the three-language formula

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Institutions and Founders

The first colleges of Company rule, the reformers’ institutions and the seven new universities of 1916–21.

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Press Laws — Whose Time

The press laws from 1799 to 1931 and the Governors-General of the time.

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Early Newspapers (1780–1877)

The first newspaper, Ram Mohan Roy’s four papers and the founders of the reform-era papers.

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Nationalist Newspapers

Papers of the Congress era and the Gandhian years and their founders.

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Revolutionary and Overseas Papers

Papers of the revolutionaries in Bengal and of Indian patriots abroad.

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