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Evolution of Higher Learning in India Questions and Answers

1.

Technical and scientific education was given in :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: C

The key gives Buddhist system of education.

Buddhist education centred on monasteries and universities such as Takshashila and Nalanda, where, besides religion and philosophy, subjects like medicine, mathematics, astronomy and the arts and crafts were taught, so it is described in textbooks of the history of education as giving technical and scientific education.

What could not be confirmed: the exact sentence was not found in a source. Vedic education also taught subjects such as astronomy, and Islamic education taught medicine and mathematics, so the question rests on the textbook comparison that the key follows.

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2.

The University Education Commission (1948) recommended that there should be minimum .......................... working days excluding examination days in universities and colleges.

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

The Commission recommended a minimum of 180 working days, excluding examination days.

The University Education Commission of 1948-49, chaired by Dr S. Radhakrishnan, recommended that universities and colleges should work for not less than 180 days in a year, exclusive of examination days. The aim was to make sure that enough teaching actually took place in an academic year.

200, 220 and 240 are larger round figures, but none of them is the minimum the 1948 Commission recommended.

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3.

Which of the following universities was the centre of military education during Vedic period ?

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: A

The key gives Takshashila.

Takshashila (Taxila), in the north-west, is the most ancient of India's famous seats of learning, and the Jatakas describe students going there to learn the arts, including archery and military science, alongside medicine, law and the Vedas. Chandragupta Maurya is traditionally said to have been trained there under Chanakya.

Nalanda flourished much later, from the Gupta period, as a Buddhist monastic university, and Gunsheela and Kundinpur are not known as centres of military training.

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