Bright Tutorials Bright Tutorials
ICSE Class 8 History & Civics Question 6 of 8

British Policies and Impacts — Question 7

Back to all questions
7
Question

Question 7

What were the recommendations of the Wood's Despatch of 1854?

Answer

The recommendations of the wood's Despatch of 1854 were the following:

  1. It asked the Government of India to take responsibility for the education of the masses.
  2. The medium of instruction should be vernacular languages at the primary level, followed by Anglo-vernacular (English and local languages) in schools at the middle and high school levels and through the English medium at College and University levels.
  3. Setting up of universities at Calcutta (Kolkata), Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai).
  4. The aim of education in India was to be the diffusion of European languages.