INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1840 the Government created a new body called the Board of Education consisting of 7 members, of whom three were nominated by the society, and transferred to it all educational institutions in the Province.

Detailed explanation-2: -The modern school system was brought to India, including the English language, originally by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay in the 1830s.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1854, the Court of Directors of the East India Company in London sent an educational despatch to the Governor-General in India. Issued by Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control of the Company, it has come to be known as Wood’s Despatch.