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About The Book : The author begins his history of the education system in India by reminding the reader that a strict system was in place before the British arrived. However, the arrival of the British is the point at which Major Basu begins his history. The history of education in India under British rule has yet to be properly written. It should be remembered that in the pre-British period, India was not an illiterate country. This land was far more advanced in education than many a Christian country of the West. Almost every village had its school for the diffusion of not only 3 but 4 R's the last R being Religion or the Ramayana. That work has contributed not a little to the preservation of Hindu culture. About The Author : Major Baman Das Basu (1867–1930) was an Indian army physician, botanist, nationalist, historian, and writer. He resigned from the Indian Medical Service after serving in Chitral and Sudan due to the conflict with his nationalism and joined his brother Sris Chandra Basu in editing and publishing books on Hinduism from the Panini Office, Allahabad. A promoter of Indian medical traditions, he completed the botanical work begun by K.R. Kirtikar on Indian medicinal plants. Baman Das Basu was born in Lahore, the youngest son of Bhubaneshwari Devi and Shyama Charan Basu (who came from Tangra Bhabanipur, Khulna and studied at Calcutta under Alexander Duff). His father moved to Lahore and initially served as a headmaster of an American Mission school.