Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Statement I:In the Vedic age both men and women had access to education.

Statement II:Wood's Despatch (1854) recognised for the first time that the Government should give frank and cordial support to female education.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true ✓ Correct

BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false

CStatement I is true but Statement II is false

DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

Correct answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

Explanation

In the Vedic age both men and women could gain access to education, so Statement 1 is true.

Wood's Despatch of 1854 first recognised that the Government should support female education, so Statement 2 is true.

Vedic texts mention learned women such as Gargi and Maitreyi.

The 1854 Despatch is often called the Magna Carta of English education in India.

Both statements record milestones in women's access to learning.

Wood's Despatch also proposed a graded system of schools and universities.

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