History of Education in India

History of Education in India as a discipline has acquired great important after World War II, when educational administrators, planners and politicians realized the potential of education as an agent of rapid social change. Educational policy studies, comparative educational systems studies, comparative educational systems studies and sociological history of education aequired new dimensions and meaning. Historically speaking the barbarians who conquered had adopted the systems of education of the vanquished. However the secularization of education gained totally important dimensions and the western historians took keen interest in the history of education of Greece and Italy. American historians added weight to the study of history of education. John Baru Bacher wrote history of the philosophy of education in the world today. It has been tried in this book History of Education to cover the most important periods of the educational development of the India.