English Education in India Previous Year Questions

English Education in India PYQs

1. Which of the following statements are true of English as used in India?

(a) India is counted among the largest English – speaking communities in the world.

(b) No group, community or population of Indians claims English as its mother tongue.

(d) English is the country’s principal language of commerce.

(e) With the growing stature of Hindi as lingua franca, it has supplanted English as the link language between the central government and the states.

1)(a) and (d) only
2)(b) and (c) only
3)(c) and (e) only
4)(d) and (e) only

2. Arrange the following in their chronological order:

(a) English replaces Persian as official language of the company.

(b) Arrival of Charles Grant in India.

(d) Construction of Fort William in Calcutta.

1)(b), (a), (d), (c)
2)(d), (a), (c), (b)
3)(d), (b), (a), (c)
4)(d), (b), (c), (a)

3. Who, in “The World as India,” argues that English can be the only common “unifying language” of India?

1)Anthony Burgess
2)C.K. Ogden
3)Noam Chomsky
4)Susan Sontag

4. Which of these departments did the Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities?

(a) Arabic

(b) English

(d) Law

1)(a), (b) and (d) only
2)(a), (b) and (c) only
3)(a), (c) and (d) only
4)(b), (c) and (d) only

5. When did T.B. Macaulay present his ‘minutes on education’ advocating English education in India?

1)12th March 1835
2)2nd February 1835
3)22nd January 1835
4)5th May 1835

6. Which of the following articles of the Indian constitution made the provision for use of English alongside Hindi for official purposes, for fifteen years?

1)Article 351
2)Article 344
3)Article 343
4)Article 348

7. In which year, did the ‘Indian Education Commission’ (The sixth commission in the history of Indian Education) under the chairmanship of Dr. D S. Kothari submit its report?

1)1956
2)1966
3)1976
4)1986

8. Who was the Chairman of the University Education Commission of 1948?

1)Babu Rajendra Prasad
2)D S. Kothari
3)Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
4)S. Radhakrishnan

9. Which of the following is the first newspaper of India?

1)Hicky’s Bengal Gazette
2)Jhones’ Calcutta Gazette
3)William’s Indian Gazette
4)Salisbury’s Madras Gazette

10. Who made the following comment?

“The great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India, all funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone”

1)Lord Macaulay
2)Sir Charles Wood
3)Lord William Bentinck
4)Arthur Mayhew

11. Todd Kachru in “Three Circles of English” observes that English speaking countries are separated into three groups:

1)Central Circle, Middle Circle and Peripheral Circle
2)Primary Circle, Secondary Circle and Tertiary Circle
3)Inner Circle, Outer Circle and Expanding Circle
4)Inner Circle, Middle Circle and Outer Circle

12. Match List I with List II:

List I

[A] M. K. Naik

[B] David McCutchion

[C] A R Srinivasa Iyengar

[D] V. K Gokak

List II

[I] The Indian Contribution to English Literature

[II] A History of Indian English Literature

[III] English in India: Its Present and Future

[IV] Indian Writing in English: Critical Essays

1)A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
2)A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
3)A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4)A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II

13. Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:

[A] Darwin’s Origin of Species

[B] Macaulay’s “Essay on Milton”

[C] Stevenson’s Treasure Island

[D] Browning’s “Pauline”

[E] Arnold Bennet’s Old Wives Tale

1)A, B, C, D, E
2)B, D, A, C, E
3)C, D, A, B, E
4)D, E, A, C, B

14. In 1835, which of the following languages was replaced by English as the official language of the East India Company?

1)Sanskrit
2)Persian
3)Arabic
4)Hindi

15. Choose the correct option:

1)The “Magna Carta” of Indian Education in the colonial period refers to “The Missionary Clause 1698”.
2)The “Magna Carta” of Indian Education in the colonial period refers to “Indian Education Commission in 1882”.
3)The “Magna Carta” of Indian Education in the colonial period refers to “Macaulay’s Minute 1835”.
4)The “Magna Carta” of Indian Education in the colonial period refers to “Wood’s Education Despatch of 1854”.

16. The Kothari Commission suggested:

1)That English must be used as a link language to translate one Indian language text into another.
2)That English be studied as a library language with the aim of getting the knowledge of science and technology, commerce and trade by reading standard books in English.
3)That research in India should be done only in English.
4)That a teacher at a University must know how to speak and write in English.

17. Which of these did Macaulay’s 1835 Minutes on Indian Education want to create?

1)A class of people Eurasian by blood but European by taste
2)A class of people Indian by blood but English by taste
3)A class of people Indian by blood but multinational in identity
4)A class of people European by blood but Oriental by taste

18. Which among the following statement is not true about NEP-2020?

1)NEP-2020 recommends that there should be high quality learning and print material in Indian languages
2)The Policy recommends early implementation of three-language formulae to promote multilingualism
3)The Policy recommends that English language should be the only medium of instruction at elementary level
4)The Policy recommends teaching in local language wherever possible

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