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

Statement I:The universities set up by the Act of Incorporation in 1857 were affiliating universities for distant geographical areas.

Statement II:No geographical limits to the areas of affiliation were indicated for the universities set up by the Act of Incorporation in 1857.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are correct ✓ Correct

BBoth Statement I and Statement II are incorrect

CStatement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect

DStatement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct

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

Explanation

Both statements are correct: the 1857 universities were affiliating bodies whose reach was not bounded by any fixed geographical limit.

Statement 1 is correct because Calcutta, Bombay and Madras universities were set up mainly to affiliate and examine colleges spread over vast regions.

Statement 2 is correct since their charters did not restrict how far affiliated colleges could lie from the university.

Calcutta University, for instance, affiliated colleges as distant as Ceylon and Burma.

These universities were modelled on the examining University of London rather than on teaching universities.

Teaching and residential functions were added to Indian universities only much later.

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