Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c18.s3.19

c18.s3.19

We have already seen that almost all the Mughal Emperors took much interest in the education of the people and the diffusion of learning. This was no doubt due to the love of learning which was infused into them by their education received by them from an early age. It was generally the practice, according to Niccolao Manucci, that when the princes attained the age of five, they were taught to read and write their mother-tongue, which was Tartar, or the old language of the Turks. Afterwards, they were placed under learned men and eunuchs to teach them the liberal and the military arts. The teachers took care to regulate their amusements in such a way as would afford them facility in acquiring knowledge of the world and lead to refined habit and taste.² Like other princes Aurangzib