Education in Ancient India
Educational ideals, teachers and students, curriculum, centres (Takṣaśilā, Nālandā, Kāñcī, agrahāras, maṭhas), women's and technical education; epigraphic endowments.
- Language
- English
- Author
- A. S. Altekar
- Extent
- 1,192 passages, 90,272 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 2nd ed., Benares: Indian Book Shop 1944; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (A. S. Altekar †1960)
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 42 parts
- c2 Contents — 3 parts
- c3 Preface to the Second Edition — 32 parts
- c4 Chapter II. Some Educational Principles and Postulates — 77 parts
- c5 Chapter III. The Teacher and the Student — 86 parts
- c6 Chapter IV. — 76 parts
- c7 Chapter V. — 11 parts
- c8 Chapter VI. Higher Literary Education: Curriculum, Method of Teaching and Examinations — 9 parts
- c9 Chapter VII. — 6 parts
- c10 Chapter VIII. Professional and Useful Education — 6 parts
- c11 Chapter IX. Female Education — 3 parts
- c12 Chapter X. A General Resume — 5 parts
- c13 Chapter XI. Achievements and Failures — 19 parts
- c14 Appendix I. Educational Rituals — 8 parts
- c15 Appendix II. Yajñopavīta or the So-called Sacred Thread — 24 parts
- c16 Appendix III. Convocation Addresses — 2 parts
- c17 Appendix IV — 16 parts
- c18 Appendix V. Technical terms and dates of authors, works and kings — 2 parts
- c19 Select Bibliography — 6 parts
- c20 Index — 57 parts
- c21 Abbreviations and Transliteration — 2 parts