Education in Ancient India c7.s2.11

c7.s2.11

Benares Under Muslim Rule: When Benares passed under the Muslim rule in *c.* 1200 A. D., hundreds of its temples were razed to the ground by Kutb-ud-din Aibak. The iconoclastic and proselyting zeal of the new rulers drove away a number of learned Brahmana families to south India. We hear very little of any literary or educational activity of Benares during the period 1200 to 1500 A. D.