Who prepared the first blueprint on English education in India in 1792?
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Correct answer: B. Charles Grant
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Charles Grant, an East India Company official, wrote 'Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain' in 1792. It argued for teaching English and Western knowledge in India and is treated as the earliest plan for English education, decades before Macaulay's Minute (1835). Its ideas fed into the Charter Act of 1813.
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