How calculus was invented in Kerala centuries before it was in West
Source: -True Indology / Twitter. How calculus was invented in Kerala centuries before it was in West
Category: Ancient Indian Education
British reports on Indian Education system during 1800s
Dharampal went to London on some other work and he happened to spend a lot of time in libraries there and he came across archival material of extreme significance. A series of surveys...
Why should Indians learn their past heritage?
I’m often told that my, you know, it’s a lot of people tell me, why do you study history, why do we need to know our pasts, you know, we need to concentrate...
Why did the British impose English on India
So why did the British impose English on India? First reason was convenience: it started out with that because they didn’t want to learn all the Indian languages, and they couldn’t understand Indian...
Knowledge transfer from India to China
Now I am coming to the knowledge transfers from India to China. A large number of Sanskrit manuscripts were carried to China either by Chinese scholars or by Indian scholars hired by Chinese...
The Art of Debating in Ancient India
Now, I come to debating, which was an intrinsic part of Indian education. So, you can look I have chosen this picture of Adi Sankaradebating with MandanaMisra and look who is the judge...
Nalanda according to Chinese Students
I also visited this place and then the only way we get to know what it looked like is when you read the autobiography of Huan-Tsang and I-Tsing, so what Huan-Tsang said is...
Ancient Indian Universities
Here’s a map, I have tried to map out the universities in the ancient times until the eleventh or twelfth century and you know it was, there are so many universities you can...
How did Hinduism led Indians to Science
Rishi Kanva’s ashrama was not a single ashrama, it was a collection, an assemblage of hermitages of which he was the presiding rishi. So, a student would go to one in ashrama and...
Educational Heritage of Ancient India — A Talk by Sahana Singh
So in the years that I have been living outside India, I get a lot of questions like: how is it that you Indians are motivated to study so hard? What is it...
