Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: The Constitution and Social Change

Question:
Select a statement which describes the contradiction between colonial education and colonial administration introduced by Britain in India?
Options:
Colonial education propagated ideas like liberalism and democracy, while colonial administration was oppressive and undemocratic.
Colonial education was in English while colonial administration was in Hindi and other Indian languages.
Colonial education was focusing on urban areas, while colonial administration was spread all over the country.
Colonial education was focusing on the upper caste while colonial administration focused on everyone.
Correct Answer:
Colonial education propagated ideas like liberalism and democracy, while colonial administration was oppressive and undemocratic.
Explanation:
In colonial India the undemocratic and discriminatory administrative the practice of British colonialism contrasted sharply with the vision of the freedom which western theories of democracy espoused and which the western-educated Indians read about.