History Practice Quiz 175
10 questions · 12 minutes
Q1.By which decade did the attack on the Orientalists become sharper, with Thomas Babington Macaulay being one of the most outspoken critics?
Q2.What did Thomas Babington Macaulay think about India?
Q3.According to Macaulay, what could be compared to what England had produced?
Q4.Who was the enthusiastic supporter of the Orientalists depicted in the monument by Richard Westmacott?
Q5.What institution did Warren Hastings take the initiative to set up?
Q6.What did the Orientalists believe should be the basis of British rule in India?
Q7.What did the critics of Orientalists argue about Eastern knowledge?
Q8.Who made the statement that 'a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia'?
Q9.What did Macaulay urge the British government in India to stop doing?
Q10.According to Macaulay, what would knowledge of English allow Indians to do?