History of education in the Indian subcontinent

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Education in the Indian subcontinent began with teaching of traditional elements such as Indian religions, Indian mathematics, Indian logic at early Hindu and Buddhist centres of learning such as ancient Takshashila (in modern-day Pakistan) , Nalanda (in India), Mithila ( in India and Nepal ), Vikramshila, Telhara and Shaunaka Mahashala in the Naimisharanya forest, etc. Islamic education became ingrained with the establishment of Islamic empires in the Indian subcontinent in the Middle Ages while the coming of the Europeans later brought western education to colonial India.