000			01499 a2200169 4500
020			_a9781947586529
082			_a370.954 SIN
100			_aSingh, Sahana
245			_aEducational Heritage of Ancient India: How an Ecosystem of Learning was Laid to Waste
260			_bNotion Press _c2017 _aChennai
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520			_aJust a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth, where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced education. This illustrated book describes how these multi-disciplinary centers of learning existed in several forms such as forest universities, brick-and-mortar universities and temple universities. It examines the funding for these citadels of learning and their graduation ceremonies. The process by which India’s ancient systems of education helped to fuel a knowledge revolution around the world with its manuscripts, forming the basis for monographs and academic papers, is explained with references. The marauding incursions by Muslim invaders, which disrupted the idyllic world of university learning in India, followed by European colonization, which led to further erosion and degeneration of India’s traditional learning systems, have been taken up in some detail. Readers will get a snapshot view of India's education system down the ages from ancient to modern times.
650			_aWomen Education
650			_aHolistic Learning
650			_aEducational Heritage
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