Education in Ancient India From Literary Sources of the Gupta Age-Mitali Chatterjee-9788124601136
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Mitali Chatterjee’s
study of education in ancient India focusses chiefly on over two hundred
years: ad 319-550, of the reign of Imperial Guptas, which has been variantly
described as the Golden Age, Periclean Age, or even the Age of Hindu
Renaissance. It was a time when literature, arts, and sciences flourished in
a degree beyond the ordinary. These achievements are inconceivable without a
well-evolved system of education. With its theme like ‘education’, covering
such a large period of time the book traverses a terrain so far little
charted. It is indisputably a work of painstaking research trying, as it
does, to retrieve educational set-up of classical India from an astonishing
mass of contemporary sources, including notably (a) Puranas like Markandeya,
Matsya, Vayu, Vishnu, and Vishnudharmottara; (b) Smriti texts like
Vyasa-smriti, Harita-samhita, and Pitamaha-smriti; (c) Literary classics of
Kalidasa, Vishakhadatta, Kumaradasa and others; (d) Jaina and Buddhist works
of scholars like Vasubandhu and Dinnaga; (e) Astronomical/scientific
treatises of Aryabhata and others; (f) Foreign travellers’ narratives; and
(g) Other miscellaneous writings on grammar, linguistics and polity — besides
inscriptional and numismatic material. Notwithstanding the ethical-cum-religious
overtones of ancient Indian education, the pathashalas (schools) and
universities taught Sanskrit, literature, arts, sciences, philosophy, laws,
and even rituals. In conclusion, the author demonstrates how the educational
system of the Imperial Guptas, in certain ways, anticipated some of the
fundamental theories given by great modern educationists. A useful work for
anyone involved with education; whether as a historian, a professional or a
scholar. |
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ISBN |
9788124601136
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PUBLISHER |
DKPD |
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HARDCOVER |
Edition |
2014 |
Language |
ENGLISH |
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