The history of education in the Indian subcontinent
began with teaching of traditional elements such as Indian religions, Indian
mathematics, Indian logic at early Hindu and Buddhist centres of learning such
as Taxila (in modern-day Pakistan) and Nalanda (in India) before the common
era. Islamic education became ingrained with the establishment of the Islamic
empires in the Indian subcontinent in the Middle Ages while the coming of the Europeans
later bought western education to colonial India. A series of measures
continuing throughout the early half of the 20th century ultimately laid the
foundation of education
