Question

English Education in India was introduced on the advice of________.
A- William Bentinck
B- Macaulay
C- Sir Charles Wood
D- Dalhousie

Answer 1

Hint: This person served between 1839 and 1841 as the War Minister, and between 1846 and 1848 as the Paymaster-General.
In the introduction of English and western principles to education in India, he played a major role.
He advocated the substitution of Persian as the official language for English, the use of English as the medium of instruction in all schools, and the teacher training of English-speaking Indians.

Complete answer:
The English Education Act 1835 was the Council of India's statutory act, which gave effect to a decision by Lord William Bentinck, then Governor-General of the British East India Company, in 1835, to reallocate funds that the British Parliament needed to spend on education and literature in India.

Previously traditional Muslim and Hindu education and the publishing of literature in the then traditional languages of learning in India (Sanskrit and Persian) had been restricted in support of traditional Muslim and Hindu education; henceforth, they were to support establishments teaching a Western curriculum with English as the language of instruction.
Thomas Babington Macaulay created his famous Memorandum on (Indian) Education in discussions leading up to the Act, which scratches on the inferiority (as he saw it of native (especially Hindu) culture and learning. Therefore through English-language higher education, there was a need to establish a class of people, Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, beliefs, morals, and intellect,' who could, in turn, acquire the resources to communicate Western learning in the vernacular languages of India.

The immediate cessation of printing by the East India Company of Arabic and Sanskrit books and that the Company should not continue to promote traditional education beyond the Sanskrit College at Benares and the Mahometan College at Delhi" were among Macaulay's recommendations (which he considered adequate to maintain traditional learning).

Hence, the correct answer is option (B)

Note: The English Education Act, although, was brought to effect by Lord William Bentinck, was based upon the advice and ideas of Thomas Macaulay and hence these two should not be confused with each other.
The English Education Act took a less negative attitude to traditional education.
It was soon succeeded by further measures based upon the provision of adequate funding for both approaches.