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Download Solution PDFWood's Despatch is related with ______.
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Education.
Key Points:
- Charles Wood was the President of the Board of Control(Introduced through Pitt’s India Act, 1784) of English East India Company.
- He had also been the Secretary of the state of India.
- In 1854 he sent a despatch to Lord Dalhousie(the Governor-General of India at that time).
- Wood’s despatch suggested that primary schools must Adopt vernacular languages.
- Through the despatch, he also suggested that high schools use anglo-vernacular medium and that English should be the medium for college-level education.
- Hence, Wood’s Despatch is considered as ‘Magna-Carta’ of English Education in India.
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