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# The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century

Reprints and analyses the Madras, Bombay and Bengal surveys (1822–38) of indigenous schools: numbers, castes of students and teachers, curricula.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [Dharampal](https://indike.org/pramana/person/dharampal)
- **Extent:** 1,250 passages, 95,527 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · Biblia Impex, New Delhi 1983 (Collected Writings vol. III); scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash;… · In copyright (Dharampal †2006); freely available on archive.org, arvindguptatoys.com — shown with credit and…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c1) — 29 parts
- [c2 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c2) — 1 part
- [c3 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c3) — 29 parts
- [c4 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c4) — 29 parts
- [c5 Documents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c5) — 29 parts
- [c6 Fra Paolino Da Bartolomeo on Education of Children in India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c6) — 17 parts
- [c7 Annexure C](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c7) — 26 parts
- [c8 Annexure D](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c8) — 2 parts
- [c9 Annexure E](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c9) — 4 parts
- [c10 Annexure F](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c10) — 5 parts
- [c11 Annexure G](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c11) — 29 parts
- [c12 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1983.c12) — 17 parts

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