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SAI International School
                                                   Session-2020-21
                                                        Class- VIII
                                                   Subject- History
                                 Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation
                       Sub Topic : How the British saw Education (Page : 95 to 96)

                                                  MIND MAP




                                 Civilising the “Native”, Educating the Nation







                                                   The tradition of
                 William Jones                                                         How the British saw
                                                     Orientalism
                                                                                             education



            ➢  He arrived Calcutta in         ➢  Two persons helped by                 ➢  Oriental Institutions

                 1783.                             William Jones in studying               Set up by the Britishers
                                                   of Asian culture were
            ➢  William Jones had                                                       ➢  Madrasa (in 1781 in
                 studied Greek and
                                              ➢  Henry Thomas Colebrooke                   Calcutta)(to
                 Latin.                            and Nathaniel Halhed                    promoteArabic,
                                                                                           Persian and Islamic law
            ➢  He was a scholar of            ➢  Jones with them set up the                )
                 French, English &                 Asiatic Society of Bengal,
                 Arabic language.                  and started a journal called        ➢  The Hindu College ( in

                                                   Asiatick Researches.                    1791 in Benaras) (to
            ➢  He had an
                                                                                           encourage the study of
                 appointment as a                                                          ancient Sanskrit texts
                  Junior Judge at the                                                      that would be useful
                 Supreme Court.
                                                                                           for the administration
                                                                                           of the country)
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