During whose viceroyship did the high courts come into existence at the three
Presidential cities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay?
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) John Lawrence
(c) Dalhousie
(d) Canning
Who passed the Widow Remarriage Act?
(a) Canning
(b) Dalhousie
(c) Auckland
(d) William Bentinck
Jonathan Duncan founded the Sanskrit College in 1792 at
(a) Calcutta
(b) Allahabad
(c) Bombay
(d) Varanasi
When did the British make English the medium of instruction in India?
(a) 1813
(b) 1833
(b) 1835
(d) 1844
Who among the following gave official sanction to the education of girls in
India?
(a) Dalhousie
(b) William Bentinck
(c) Hardinge I
(d) Ellenborough
Sir Charles Wood, who drafted the Education Despatch of 1854, was the then
(a) Secretary of state for India
(b) President of the Court of Directors
(c) President of the Board of Control
(d) Prime minister of England
Who was the president of the Indian Education Commission of 1882?
(a) Thomas Raleigh