Who founded the first English institution of higher learning in India?

a. British East India Company
b. English missionaries
c. Indians
d. Gurkhas
e. Lord Macaulay


Ans: c

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Which of the following is not an example of Romanticism?

A. Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreaker B. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein C. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" D. Caspar David Friedrich's Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon E. Eugene Delacroix's Women of Algiers

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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