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How far do you agree with the view that the temples in the early medieval period were catalysts in spreading education?

  • UPSC 2010
  • Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200

Early medieval India's educational landscape rested on three overlapping institutional pillars — the household-based gurukula, the Brahmin-settlement agrahara school, and the temple college or ghatika — and of these the temple emerges from the epigraphic record as the most richly endowed and institutionally elaborate. The claim that temples acted as catalysts of education holds up…

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  • The Institutional Case: Temples as Functioning Colleges
  • The Limits: Whose Education, and What Kind

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