Q. The foundation of modern educational system in India was laid by which of the following acts?
Answer: Macaulay’s Minutes of 1835
Notes: The "Minute" was written as a rebuttal to those council members who believed that Indian students should continue to be educated in Sanskrit and Arabic as well as English; Macaulay's party carried the argument. Macaulay's “Minute on Indian Education”, He envisaged creating, “a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect”.

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