What was the Condition of Education in India before British Rule.

Ruins of Nalanda University . Pic - Vikas Pandey 

British education system or Lord Cornwallis education system was introduced in India to destroy the knowledge based education in India.

So that Indians will be made clerks and sub ordinates to help few British people to rule this country.

This education system is continuing till date, which put the education level down in India.

Indian education was knowledge based, it was not service based which is now, and this is the greatest contribution of Britishers for India.

The quality of education imparted in Ancient India was unparalleled which continued in Medieval period too.

Hence in spite of various hardship and hurdles students from different parts of the world flocked to Indian universities.

Amir Khusrau (1252-1325 A.D.) mentions that scholars have come from different parts of the world to study in India.

But no Indian scholar have found it necessary to go abroad to acquire knowledge. 

Indian scholars were in great demand abroad. Khaliphs like Al Mansur and Harun Al Rashid (754-809 A.D.) sent embassies to India to procure Indian scholars.

Astronomical treatise like Brahmasiddhanta and the Khanda Khadyaka of Brahmagupta and the medical books of Charaka, Susruta and Vagbhatta were translated to Arabic.

As a home of knowledge and wisdom Ancient India produced scores of scholars on various subjects - Buddha and Shankara (philosophy), Kautilya (political science and administration), Sushruta (surgery), Charaka (medicine), Kanada (physicist; propounder of atomic theory), Nagarjuna (Chemistry), Aryabhatta and Varahamihira (Astronomy), Baudhayana and Brahmagupta (mathematics) and Patanjali (yoga), Vatasayana (Kamasutra), Lilawati (Mathematics) to name a few. 

As the whole world knows, the concept of zero was a contribution of ancient Indians.

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