NTSE Stage I Results (Gujarat) 2015

Cut off for General Category - 126
Cut off for SC - 114

Cut off for ST - 112

Total 179 selections from Gujarat

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In SAT
Q.62. With which Governor General's efforts did the teaching of English language begin in India ?
(A) Lord Cornwallis          (B) Lord Ripon        (C) Lord Macaulay      (D) Lord Hastings
Official answer key says (C) Lord Macaulay
Objection must be raised on this question. It should be Bonus
Lord Macaulay was never a Governor General of India

Macaulay was Secretary to the Board of Control under Lord Grey from 1832 until 1833. After the passing of the Government of India Act 1833, he was appointed as the first Law Member of the Governor-General's Council. He went to India in 1834, and served on the Supreme Council of India between 1834 and 1838. Later on he introduced English-medium education in India through his famous Minute on Indian Education of February 1835. Macaulay called for an educational system to create a class of anglicised Indians who would serve as cultural intermediaries between the British and the Indians, and brought to an end a lively debate on the appropriate language for education and administration. Macaulay thereby succeeded in implementing ideas previously put forward by Lord William Bentinck, the governor-general from 1829, who, inspired by utilitarian ideas and calling for "useful learning," had favoured the replacement of Persian with English as the official language, the use of English as the medium of instruction, and the training of English-speaking Indians as teachers