Educational loan system in India

THE NATIONAL RENAISSANCE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE FRAME  AND
FEATURES OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN INDIA

The educational system of a country will normally be a product of a variety of factors that characterise  the life of the people of that country.  Different countries have different patterns of education, depending on the social, religious, linguistic, cultural, political and economic factors.  India is no exception as almost all these factors have had helped the shaping  of the educational system in the  subcontinent.  This chapter attempts  to  analyse  the  predominant factors  and  the remarkable events  that prompted the  growth  of  India's national renaissance and their direct and indirect impact on  India's field of education and how far they affected the soul  and content of educational pattern in  Kerala. Any study on Indian education will be incomplete unless it is  accompanied  by  an attempt to  examine and evaluate the  educational  ideas propounded by  renowned reformers like  Raja  Ram Mohan Roy, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda,  Annie Besant, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri  Aurobindo  Ghosh and Mahatma Gandhi.  They  all,  in their  own  way,  contributed  in  rousing  the  national consciousness  in  the  minds  of the  Indians  in  the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. The need for a system of national education began  to be felt in India due to many factors.  The inspiring role played  by  great  men and women of  the  Indian  national Renaissance can never be minimised.  The contributions  of Sri  Aurobindo, Tagore and Gandhi deserve special mention as  their views on education had a profound impact during the days of India's national insurgence. This can be fully understood only in the perspective of  economic, political, social and cultural life of the Indian  people, particularly during  the  nineteenth  and early  twentieth  centuries when the British  were  rather riding  safe  in the  Indian political  arena.  BY establishing their rule in India the British also tried to  impose their educational system and cultural ideas  on the Indian people.  This new western culture and education gave birth to a new awakening in India.  The  most distinctive achievement of the British educationists  was the creation  of  a  new system  of  education  the  main objective  of which was to spread western literature  and science.