TRANSITION OF EDUCATION SYSTEM IN PRE-INDEPENDENT INDIA: A BRIEF-UP

Abstract

Before 600 BC to1947, Indian education system had witnessed various transitional phases: Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, Islam, Mughal, Missionary and the British, the wave of national movement for education for Indians. Hence, the paper aims to project in synoptic way to concise the entire transition of educational system of India up-to 1947. The paper too focuses the salient features of each phases of education and also highlights how change of education had occurred during the span of time immemorial. The quest of spiritual identity to materialistic identity, to materialistic identity to patriotic identity, to patriotic identity to self-reliant identity all have been transplanted to the Indian people only by the means of education. The paper hence focuses a overall bird’s eye-view of transition of education and also helps to comprehend how the nature of education has been shifted along with the span of time.