UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2018

Which of the following led to the introduction of English Education in India? 1. Charter Act of 1813 2. General Committee of Public Instruction, 1823 3. Orientalist and Anglicist Controversy. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  1. 1 and 2 only
  2. 2 only
  3. 1 and 3 only
  4. 1, 2 and 3

Answer

Correct Answer

2 only

Explanation

UPSC's key accepts only the General Committee of Public Instruction (1823) as leading to the introduction of English education. The 1813 Charter Act's education clause did not specify English, and the Orientalist-Anglicist controversy was a debate that Macaulay's Minute (1835) later settled in favour of English.

Topics: education under british rule, history, introduction of english education, modern india