Journal of Rural Development

Meenakshi Umesh ¹

Affiliations
1 Puvidham School, Puvidham Learning Centre, Dharmapuri - 636803, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

The Gandhian Historian, late Dharampal had written a famous book called the “Beautiful Tree” first published in 1983 and subsequently published in 2000 as part of the collected writings of Dharampal. This book has acquired an iconic position as it had broken several British promoted popular myths about the prevalence of education system in the pre-colonial and early colonial period in India and also had contrasted them with the public-school system in Britain around the same time.

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