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Class 8 History Chapter 6 Question Answers - Our Pasts III (Part - II)

Q1: Who is a Linguist?
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A linguist is someone who knows and studies several languages.

Q2: Which year did the East India Company decide to improve the system of vernacular education?
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After 1854, the Company decided to improve the system of vernacular education.

Q3: What does munshi mean?
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The word "munshi" was used for a person who can read, write, and teach Persian.

Q4: Name the Scottish missionary who toured the districts of Bengal and Bihar in the 1830s.
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In the 1830s, William Adam, a Scottish missionary, toured the districts of Bengal and Bihar.

Q5: Name the two Indians who reacted against Western education.
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Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.

Q6: "By education, I mean all-round drawing out of the best in child and man - body, mind, and spirit." Whose words are these?
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Mahatma Gandhi

Q7: Who were called Orientalists?
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Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were called Orientalists.

Q8: Who was of the opinion that Colonial education created a sense of inferiority in the minds of Indians?
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Mahatma Gandhi

Q9: Name the places where universities were first established by the company in India?
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Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay

Q10: Who started the journal Asiatick Researches?
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Jones set up the Asiatic Society of Bengal and started a journal called Asiatick Researches.

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