SSA - DEEP Annual Work Plan 2003-04 District Jalandhar (Punjab)

Abstract

From Education: The traditional system of education in the maktabs and madrassas run by maulvis; chatshalas and pathshalas run by the pandits, and gurmukhi schools run by the granthis/bhais continued upto the Sikh period. The lande or mahajani schools were run for the trading and merchandise community. The teaching was thus more or less generally on religious lines in Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit and Gurmukhi languages only. But with the advent of the British rule the secular schools were set up where instructions were imparted in Urdu in the subject of elementary mathematics, history and geography.