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Article: Education in Ancient India.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- January 1, 2004
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Education in Ancient India. By HARTMUT SCHARFE. Handbook of Oriental Studies, sect. 2: India, vol. 16. Leiden: BRILL, 2002. Pp. 355, illus.
A statement on the back cover of this volume rightfully claims that Hartmut Scharfe has produced "a true reference work" on education in classical India, for the entire period preceding Muslim rule (with occasional excursuses into more modern times). Indeed, both the primary (Sanskrit and Pali, and, as one might expect from Scharfe, also Tamil and Malayalam) and secondary source materials (including comparisons with Zoroastrian, Greco-Roman, and other ancient civilizations, as well as studies of oral and written education ...