प्राचीन भारत में शिक्षा (डॉ. ए.एस. अल्तेकर - गुरुकुल एवं बौद्ध विहार शिक्षण इतिहास)

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sional and Useful Education and Female Education
occurred in the first edition, but they have been revised,
rearranged and rewritten in a more succinct form for
this edition.
Chapter X, which gives a General Resume of
the subject, is a new addition. The line of
treatment so far followed in the book isolated
the different topics like Primary Education, Female
Education, etc., and traced their history and
development from age to age. This method of
treatment no doubt enables the reader to get a
clear idea of the development of each theme, but does
not give him the picture of the educational condition
as a whole of the different epochs of Indian History.
The new chapter seeks to meet this need. In its first
section it gives a resume of the contribution of the
Buddhism to Ancient Indian Education and in its
second section it gives a bird's-eye view of the general
educational condition and achievements of each of the
four succeeding epochs into which Ancient Indian
History has been divided for this purpose. It is hoped
that both the student and the general reader will find
this chapter very useful. This edition like the first
one concludes with a discussion of the achievements
and failures of Ancient Indian Education.
Appendix I deals with different educational
rituals discussed in Chapter I of the first edition.
Appendices II and III are identical with Appendices
A and B of the first edition. Appendices IV and V are
practically speaking new. They explain some technical
expressions and supply dates of kings, authors and
travellers, referred to in the work.