The Khilafat movement was an agitation by Indian Muslims, allied with Indian nationalists, to pressure the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan of Turkey as Caliph of Islam after World War I. The movement occurred simultaneously with the Non-cooperation movement and was focused on increasing Hindu Muslim unity.

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The Khilafat movement was an agitation by Indian Muslims, allied with Indian nationalists, to pressure the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan of Turkey as Caliph of Islam after World War I. The movement occurred simultaneously with the Non-cooperation movement and was focused on increasing Hindu Muslim unity.

Wood’s Despatch was a scheme of education that was proposed by Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control of the East India Company, in 1854. It repudiated the “downward filtration theory” and empha-sized on the education of the masses and announced the duty and responsibility of the Government to provide education for the people of India. It is known as the Magna Carta of English Education in India.

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Wood’s Despatch was a scheme of education that was proposed by Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control of the East India Company, in 1854. It repudiated the “downward filtration theory” and empha-sized on the education of the masses and announced the duty and responsibility of the Government to provide education for the people of India. It is known as the Magna Carta of English Education in India.

B. R. Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination against Untouchables (Dalits) and other oppressed classes. He injected a degree of self-respect to the backward communities and brought them into the national movement. He expounded the importance of a social reform that would abolish caste discrimination and the concept of untouchability in India and joined hands with Gandhi in the Harijan movement, which protested against the social injustices faced by people belonging to backward castes in India.

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B. R. Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination against Untouchables (Dalits) and other oppressed classes. He injected a degree of self-respect to the backward communities and brought them into the national movement. He expounded the importance of a social reform that would abolish caste discrimination and the concept of untouchability in India and joined hands with Gandhi in the Harijan movement, which protested against the social injustices faced by people belonging to backward castes in India.

Komagata Maru was a Japanese ship that travelled from Hong Kong to Vancouver in 1914, carrying economic migrants who did not like their living conditions back in India. However, a majority of the passengers were not allowed to disembark in Canada, and the ship was forced to return to India.

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Komagata Maru was a Japanese ship that travelled from Hong Kong to Vancouver in 1914, carrying economic migrants who did not like their living conditions back in India. However, a majority of the passengers were not allowed to disembark in Canada, and the ship was forced to return to India.

Lord William Bentinck introduced English as the medium of instruction in India in 1835. Acting on the recommendations of Macaulay’s “Minute Upon Indian Education”, he decided that the government would give support only to institutions of higher education that used English as the medium of instruction. He was supported by Raja Rammohun Roy in this endeavor.

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Lord William Bentinck introduced English as the medium of instruction in India in 1835. Acting on the recommendations of Macaulay’s “Minute Upon Indian Education”, he decided that the government would give support only to institutions of higher education that used English as the medium of instruction. He was supported by Raja Rammohun Roy in this endeavor.