Education (Q&A)

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Wood’s Dispatch / Despatch is known as Magna Carta (Magna Charta) of Indian Education. Wood’s Dispatch was an act of 1854 implemented by the British rulers during pre-independent India. The despatch was presented by Sir Charles Wood to the directors of the British East India Company. Woods was Secretary of State for India at that time. It professed the promotion of the western education in India. As a result of this charter Education Departments were established in every province. Universities at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were opened for higher education.

The act spread western education in India which initially benefitted the Britishers for creating a workforce of clerks. But after they left, the Indian Education system followed the same pattern but to spread education. That is why it is known as Magna Carta of Indian Education.

As for Magna Carta, it is a Latin Term which stands for ‘Great Charter’, meaning a ‘Great Paper’. Also known as ‘Magna Carta Libertatum’ meaning ‘Great Charter of Freedoms’ it is an English legal charter, originally issued at Runnymede, June 15, 1215. Magna Carta was initiated by the subjects of King John of England. These subjects were Barons who adopted this charter to limit the power of the king through certain laws and protect their privileges.

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