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Assess the educational system in early India and identify important educational institutions of the period.
- UPSC 2012
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
Education in early India developed along two parallel, occasionally intersecting tracks: an older Brahmanical system rooted in the individual guru-shishya relationship and oral transmission of the Vedas, and a later institutionalized monastic system built around Buddhist viharas that matured, by the Gupta and post-Gupta centuries, into residential universities of genuinely international standing. Assessing the system…
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- The Brahmanical Tradition and Taxila
- The Rise of Monastic Universities: Nalanda
- Other Institutions: Vallabhi, Vikramshila and the Pala Network
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