Ancient India's Educational Excellence: How Nalanda Attracted Global Students | Sahana Singh

Sahana Singh reveals how ancient India was the educational capital of the world with universities like Nalanda attracting students from China, Japan, Korea, and beyond. Discover the sophisticated Gurukul system, rigorous admission standards, and holistic learning approaches that made Indian degrees globally coveted, while exposing how British colonial policies systematically destroyed this 5000-year educational heritage. Sahana Singh, engineer and author specializing in ancient Indian education systems, uncovers the reverence for learning, sacred ceremonies like Vidya Rambha, and specialized knowledge domains that flourished in forest universities. Essential viewing for educators, historians, and Indians seeking to understand why colonial education policies left India more illiterate than before while destroying regional languages and indigenous knowledge systems.

Key Points
Explore how students undertook dangerous journeys to reach Nalanda and Vikramshila universities
Understand the Gurukul system's holistic education model with guru-student relationships
Learn about rigorous admission tests that eliminated many international applicants
Discover specialized learning across Vedas, mathematics, medicine, logic, and sciences
Examine British taxation policies that starved pathshalas and destroyed temple-based education
Recognize how English education policy relegated mother tongues to second-class status
Understand why knowing history is essential for India's future identity and capabilities


About the speaker:
Sushri Sahana Singh is an author and commentator based in Texas, USA. She is an environmental engineer by qualification who writes on a variety of issues including Indian history, water management and education. Her two books on India's educational heritage have been appreciated for awakening Indians to the role played by India in spreading knowledge around the world. Smt Sahana is on the board of many nonprofit organizations related to history, heritage, education, restoration of Samskara and to the cause of helping Hindu refugees.

Sahana Singh's book The Educational Heritage of Ancient India can be purchased here:
The Educational Heritage of Ancient India: How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste

https://www.amazon.in/dp/1947586521/r...

Topics covered:
00:00:00 Introduction: Why Indians Study Hard and Questions from Abroad
00:01:07 Ancient India as Educational Capital: Global Student Rush
00:02:04 Sacred Learning Ceremonies: Vidya Rambha and Upanayanam
00:02:58 International Students' Dangerous Journeys to Nalanda
00:03:30 Forest Universities and Holistic Gurukul Education Systems
00:04:20 Rishi Kanwa's Ashrama: Multi-Specialized Learning Clusters
00:04:50 Nyaya Shastra: Ancient India's Systematic Knowledge Framework
00:08:15 Nalanda University: 10,000 Students and Rigorous Admission Standards
00:12:40 Student Life in Gurukuls: Daily Routines and Discipline
00:18:30 Specialized Knowledge Domains: From Vedas to Medicine
00:25:45 Economic Support Systems: How Education Was Funded
00:32:20 British Colonial Destruction of Indian Education
00:40:00 Taxation Policies That Starved Pathshalas and Temples
00:42:00 English Education's Death Knell for Regional Languages
00:43:00 Why History Matters: Past, Present, and Future Continuum
00:44:00 IHAR Team and Indic Perspective on History

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