History Optional (UPSC)
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I am Nikhil Sheth, History faculty at Level Up IAS. This channel is started to cater to the needs of History Optional in UPSC CSE.
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Day 11: Ancient Learning Centres

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March 3, 2023
I am looking of recording some long videos for history optional. Can you suggest me some interesting/useful topics which students would be generally interested in for preparation? These could be for beginners (like sources of preparation) as well as high level topics (subaltern philosophy and its application in the answers of modern India).
March 5, 2023
Thank you. These are very good and useful suggestions. I will start working on them. The overall idea is to create a playlist of such lectures on youtube in the coming days.
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March 6, 2023
Day 13: Buddhist Sites
Identify the five sites and write their descriptions here in the comment.

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March 7, 2023
Day 13: Buddhist Sites

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March 7, 2023
March 9, 2023
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Education was always 'popular' in India. Certain Vedic (or suchlike) education was confined to upper castes but many other disciplines, subjects were widely accessible. The funding for education came from local zamindars, temples donations, village panchayats, or in case of big institutes there were royal land grants. Also, when it came to vocational education, the guilds used to have their own apprentice mechanism to teach the crafts. When it came to basic numeracy and literacy, village schools always housed 20-30-40 students as per the case.

It is when British came, they dismantled the whole system and then started the era of mass illiteracy in India. Please read the chapter in New NCERT standard 8. I have attached the PDF here. Please go through it.
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Day 17: Ashokan Edicts

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