Question

The middle class which had received Western education assimilated the philosophy of _____________.
(A) Democracy
(B) Equality
(C) Liberty
(D) Fraternity

Answer 1

Hint: Western education is an auxiliary to ancient African style of education which accentuates the proper technique of classroom teaching for all and miscellaneous and is based on interaction in the inscription, interpretation and numeric.

Complete step-by-step answer:
The British Government familiarized the schooling of English in the schools and colleges mostly with a view to getting Indian help in overseeing the government. Schooled Indians were given works in numerous divisions. They were not presented with high positions but made to do secretarial jobs. The monarchs, possibly, did not understand that the English language would attest a benefit to the Indians. The Indians with English acquaintance came closer to one another and swapped their philosophies about the blasphemies of the external statute in India when they heard of human freedom, democracy and nationalism of the West. They were enthused and began to work for the freedom of India. They were extremely enthralled by the wisdom of Mazzini, Rousseau, Garibaldi and Thomas Paine. A new upsurge of nationalism flounced through the nation. Western education gave a strong impression of democracy and authority. The people started watching at the complications challenging the nation under the essence of nationalism.

Thus, option (A) is correct.

Note: The Britishers postulated western education in India which familiarized the Indians to philosophies of democracy and nationalism. These philosophies altered the political intellectuals of Indians and brought about a nationwide realization. The western education initiated to the recently schooled Indians the penstocks of liberal European belief. When Indians studied European history, they came across principles such as liberty, nationality, equality, rule of law and self-government.