History of Education in India

Part I: Ancient India, 3000 B.C.-1192 A.D.
1. Indus Valley Civilisation
2. Composition of the Four Vedas and the Birth of the Vedic Schools
3. Change and Reaction Within the Vedic Schools: Composition of the Brahmanas, Aranyakas and the Upanishads
4. Change and Reaction Within the Vedic Schools: The Age of Asceticism
5. The Age of the Buddha and of the birth of the Buddhist Viharas
6. Reaction to the Challenge of the Buddhist Viharas: The Age of the Sutras
7. The Vedic Schools and the Vocations: The Development of the Ingredients of a Prosperous Civilisation
8. The Ascendancy of the Vedic Schools and Of the Buddhist Viharas
9. The Decline of the Vedic Schools and of the Buddhist Viharas
10. The Art of Writing, Languages and Literature

Part II: Medieval India, 1192 A.D.-1757 A.D.
11. The Dramatis Personae
12. The Muslim State: It’s Nature and Administration
13. The Structure and Nature of Islamic Education
14. The Age of Sultans
15. The Age of Padshahs
16. The Age of Naib Sultans and of Nazims
17. Advancement of Learning by the Muslim Nobility
18. The Age of Vocations
19. Hindu Learning
20. Vernaculars and Village Schools
21. Education of Girls and Women

Part III: Modern India, 1757-1999
22. The East India Company’s Role in the Development of Education in India
23. Towards Education in the English Medium
24. The Decade after 1835
25. Education in the Presidencies: Bombay, Madras and the North-Western Provinces
26. Missionaries and Enlightened Indians
27. The Age of Dalhousie, 1848-1856
28. Expansion of Education Till 1882
29. The Hunter Commission
30. Developments in the Post-Hunter Commission Years
31. Towards a Control of Higher Education
32. The Age of Curzon, 1899-1905
33. National Education Till 1912
34. The Government of India Resolution on Indian Education
35. The Calcutta University Commission
36. Education Under Dyarchy
37. Education Under Provincial Autonomy
38. Independent India: Towards a National Policy on Education
39. The Critical Years Till 1998
40. A Post-Mortem