Which of the following are true regarding Fort William College? A. Its medium…

Concept

For a multi-statement history question, test every claim against independent anchors: the institution’s instructional system, the person’s documented role, and chronological overlap. Founding an institution does not by itself mean teaching there, and two people cannot have studied together unless their lives and the institution’s operating years overlap.

Application

1. Fort William College trained East India Company civil servants through English while teaching Indian languages and administrative subjects; under the examination’s formulation, statement A is accepted.

2. Lord Wellesley established the college in 1800. Establishment and patronage do not establish a teaching appointment, so statement B is not supported.

3. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar joined Fort William College as head pandit in 1841, which was a teaching post; statement C is supported.

4. Fort William College closed in 1854. Subhash Chandra Bose was born in 1897, after Vidyasagar died in 1891, so the two could not have studied there together; statement D is not supported.

Contrast and cross-check

• A, C and D only includes the chronologically impossible joint-study claim D.

• B and D only includes both the unsupported teaching claim B and the impossible chronology in D.

• A, B, C and D includes the unsupported claims B and D.

• A and C only contains the two claims retained by the role and chronology checks.

Therefore, the correct statement set is A and C only.