Paper 1 · Higher Education
UGC NET June 2023 (13.06.2023) Shift-II
Given below are two statements. 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. 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 — Both statements are true, so the answer is that both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Explanation
★Both statements are true, so the answer is that both Statement I and Statement II are true.
★In the early Vedic age education was open to both men and women.
★Women scholars such as Gargi and Maitreyi are named in the texts of that period.
★So statement I is true about access to education in the Vedic age.
★Wood's Despatch of 1854 is called the Magna Carta of English education in India.
★It was the first official document to recommend frank and cordial state support for female education.
★So statement II is true, and the Despatch also laid the basis for the university system founded in 1857.
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