HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Womesh Chandra Banerjee
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Gopal Krishna Gokhle
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Mahadev Govind Ranade
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Madan Mohan Malviya
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Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Gopal Krishna Gokhale . Gopal Krishna Gokhale was a member of the Imperial Legislative Council. He was popularly famous as a great champion of compulsory primary education for the first time in India.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although the government rejected most of the proposals of Mr. Gokhale, in the same year (1910) the Government of India created a separate Department of Education in charge of a Member of the Executive Council and asked it to devise schemes for the extension of primary education (Sen, 1941).
Detailed explanation-3: -(1910 A.D. – 1917 A.D.): Gopal Krishna Gokhle, the veteran nationalist leader of India realized the inherent utility of compulsory education and submitted a private bill before the Imperial Legislative Council on the 18th march, 1910, to provide for the compulsory education.