Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals c8.77

c8.77

The introduction of education on modern lines has had a far-reaching effect on this popular indigenous system of elementary education. Different policies were adopted in different provinces with regard to it. In some provinces these schools were slowly replaced by new schools instituted by Government, or at least under Government inspection. In other provinces they were reformed and absorbed into the modern system. One still hears, even nowadays, of a school being started, as a pecuniary venture by an enterprising teacher, or by a *zamindār* or other local magnate for his own children and others; but such schools can seldom survive for long without the aid of a Government grant, which means that they become absorbed in the general Government system of education. Still, even in the schools most closely under Government inspection and control, many of the features of the old indigenous schools, both good and bad, can still be traced.