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Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Engineering and medical institutions appeared at Roorkee, Calcutta, Poona and Guindy, and Curzon later broadened professional courses. Yet scientific and technical education remained limited, and access to important institutions was restricted.

Which one of the following conclusions follows most directly?

  1. The establishment of a few specialised institutions created an extensive and socially inclusive system of technical education.
  2. Technical education received greater support than English literary education because it posed no threat to colonial authority.
  3. Colonial policy primarily sought to create an autonomous industrial and scientific economy controlled by Indians.
  4. Individual institutional initiatives did not amount to a broad policy of developing mass scientific and technical capacity.
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