Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following assertion:

Wood’s Despatch of 1854 represented, at least on paper, a broader approach than downward filtration, while still retaining a differentiated hierarchy of languages and institutions.

Which one of the following most strongly supports the assertion?

  1. It confined public expenditure to a small number of English colleges and rejected governmental responsibility for mass education.
  2. It abolished English higher education and placed the entire system under independent village organisations.
  3. It assigned responsibility for mass education to the government, proposed a hierarchy from vernacular primary schools to universities, and retained English for higher studies.
  4. It transferred primary education to district boards and divided secondary education into literary and vocational streams.
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