COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Read the Bible
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Read a hornbook
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Read something like Poor Richard’s Almanac
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All of these are accurate
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Detailed explanation-1: -Regularise education system from the primary to the university levels. Indians were to be educated in English and their native language. The education system was to be set up in every province. Every district should have at least one government school.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Puritans valued education, both for the sake of religious study (they demanded a great deal of Bible reading) and for the sake of citizens who could participate better in town meetings.
Detailed explanation-3: -On the one hand, education has been seen as the key tool to elicit the consent of the Indian elite to British rule. Colonial officials hoped education would mould Indians into ‘babus’ – loyal to the colonial regime. On the other hand, education was also thought to have generated nationalist resistance.
Detailed explanation-4: -Education was very important in the New England colonies. The first public schools in the colonies were started there. In 1647, Massachusetts passed a law requiring all towns with 50 or more families to hire a teacher to instruct their children how to read or write.