Research Catalog

Title

The history of education in ancient India, c. 3000 BC to AD 1192 / Suresh Chandra Ghosh.

Author

Ghosh, Suresh Chandra.

Publication

New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2001.

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Description

x, 172 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In Ancient India education was religion and religion as education. However, we have very little idea till now about how our education system in Ancient India had emerged out of our religious scriptures, how it had changed in response to the changing conditions in our past society and how it had contributed to the development of a prosperous and glorious civilisation which has now become our proud heritage. Based on a critical study of our religious scriptures, Vedic, Buddhist and Jaina, as available in English, German and French translations, this book attempts to delineate these developments. Written largely for a non-specialist audience in India and abroad, this book will be useful not only for the students of history but also for those interested in our Ancient Indian history and culture."--Jacket.

Subject

• Education > India > History
• India > Civilization > To 1200

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-166) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Indus Valley Civilisation -- Ch. 3. The Age of the Four Vedas -- Ch. 4. The Age of the Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads -- Ch. 5. The Age of the Asceticism -- Ch. 6. The Age of the Buddha -- Ch. 7. The Age of the Sutras -- Ch. 8. The Age of Vocations -- Ch. 9. The Age of Ascendancy -- Ch. 10. The Age of Decline -- Ch. 11. The Art of Writing, Language and Literature -- Ch. 12. Conclusion.

ISBN

8121509769

LCCN

^^2001292836

OCLC

48810900

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library