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Education in India

NIOS · Class 10 · Indian Culture and Heritage

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1. Education in Ancient India

  • In the Vedic period, education was mainly for the upper castes.
  • Learning usually began with the Upanayana ceremony.
  • Education was oral and was based on memorisation of texts such as the Vedas and Dharmashastras.
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2. Education in the Medieval Period

  • With the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate, Islamic education was introduced in India.
  • Medieval education developed on the lines of the Abbasids of Baghdad.
  • Amir Khusrau developed prose and poetry writing skills and devised a new language suited to local conditions.
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3. Education in the Modern Period

  • Before British rule changed the system, India still had many traditional centres of learning and vernacular education.
  • Thomas remarked that India had an early and lasting love of learning.
  • The English found in India a widespread style of elementary education and higher education, with the former mainly practical and the latter mainly literary, philosophical and religious.
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4. Education in Independent India

  • After independence, education became a national responsibility.
  • The Kothari Commission report referred to education as the only instrument of peaceful social change.
  • The Constitutional Amendment of 1976 placed education in the concurrent list.

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Education in ancient India beganBuddhist monasteries admitted students for tenDuring the Delhi Sultanate and MughalBritish rule changed Indian education throughAfter Independence

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