Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c15.3

c15.3

Ideas of popular and mass education are as yet new in India. In ancient and mediaeval India liberal or general education was not considered to be necessary for all people. But each caste or community had its own educational system which was of a technical character. The education of the different classes of people was determined by the nature of their occupation. The state did not very much interfere with the educational system that obtained in the empire. It neither maintained schools for the people, nor materially encouraged even private initiative.