Revisiting Educational Heritage of India | Sahana Singh| #SangamTalks

After a very successful narrative set by her first book ’Educational Heritage Of Ancient India’, Sushree Sahana Singh has mapped details of Ancient Indian heritage of education in her book ’Revisiting Educational Heritage of India’. The glory of advance education system of India and many well developed universities with huge campus and a well accomplished library, where scholars from various nations used to travel for studying are discussed in detail in this book. It is amazing to note how Ancient learning from India travelled to China, Arab world and consequently Europe via translations by scholars. 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. Sub topics: 0:00 Power statement 1:47 India’s educational heritage 2:57 Initiation of education - Hathe khodi, upanayan 5:49 Traditional centres of advanced learning in India 8:49 Students and Teachers travelled for education 12:00 Thinkers of Ancient India 13:27 Importance of Brahmacharya 15:27 Memory Training 17:20 Story telling tradition 18:40 Games as a tool to educate 20:27 Transfer of Knowledge from India 22:27 Sanskrit texts translated in Chinese, Greek 26:40 Knowledge transfer to Arab world 29:20 Europe translates Arabic texts with Indian knowledge 32:39 Destruction of Indian Universities by Islamic invaders 35:27 Destroying Hindu manuscripts systematically 39:47 Hindu traditional learning kept alive 41:37 British agenda for Indian education 45:38 Education became prevalent in England in 1850 47:27 Dharampal reveals about Indian schools 51:35 Innovative education in Pre-British India 53:00 Colonial destruction of India’s Ecosystem 58:00 Rigid cast identities encouraged by British 1:00:47 How can the Indian traditional education be revived? Subscribe to our YouTube channels: YouTube English: YouTube Hindi: Follow Sangam Talks on social media : Telegram : Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Website: Donate: