Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.143

c17.143

While speaking of the schools and colleges of these days, we should not lose sight of the educational work done by distinguished learned men, teaching pupils in their houses. They supplemented, as already pointed out, the educational work done by the literary institutions, and provided a field for post-collegiate studies. It was thus that 'Abdul Qādir, the author of the *Tārīkhi-Badā'ūnī* completed his education at Agra, where he went with that purpose, leaving his house at Basāwar; and there he lived and studied in the house of his preceptor, Mīhr 'Alī Beg.² This system of imparting education has been in vogue from remote times, specially for those branches of arts and sciences for which schools or colleges generally made no provision, *e.g.* music, painting and other arts, the various industries, studies in the higher branches of a subject, and so forth.