Tag Results: Education
History Daily
BORI: Storehouse of the ‘Memory of the World’
Some of the earliest known written works on the subcontinent, including those relating to the Vedas and the Mahabharata, are hiding in plain sight in the Bhandarkar Institute, Pune. Catch the intriguing story of the Manuscript Collection Project and how its legacy was taken forward by a pioneering Indian scholar
LHI HerStory
Hansa Mehta: India’s First Woman Vice-Chancellor
Did you know that a woman from Gujarat was responsible for forcing the United Nations to make the opening lines of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights more gender-neutral? She broke caste barriers to marry the man she loved and also helped frame the Constitution of India. Read all about a forgotten hero named Hansa Mehta
Amazing India
Nalanda: University to the World
For over 700 years, students flocked to one of the world’s first attempts at organised learning. Then Nalanda was attacked, razed, and largely forgotten. Nearly a millennium later, it’s back, not far from the ruins of a truly exceptional past
History Daily
Decoding Madrasas
Madrasas are generally perceived as schools of religious orthodoxy and sometimes even centres of extremist teaching. A new book titled ‘Madrasas In The Age of Islamophobia’ puts these religious institutions in perspective, reveals their former inclusive nature, and explains why they are trapped in a time warp