1. sangam period
   1. sangam literature
      1. woman excel
      2. schools-tree shade or temple
         1. higher education-maths,pallis or viharas
   2. pallava period
      1. kanchi centre of 'Sanskrit literature'
      2. hiuen tsang-narasimhavarma pallava
      3. dharmapala,chancellor of nalanda-kanchi
   3. chola period
      1. ennayiram,tribuveni,kunrathur-cholas
      2. sekkilar wrote periyapuranam,kanrathur,chennai
   4. pandya period
      1. institutes known as salai
      2. kadnallur salai and parthipasekarapuram
   5. marathas
      1. raja serfoji 2,tanjore,saraswathi Mahal library,1824
2. education under British
   1. events
      1. charter act of 1813-1 lakh education
      2. school book society-1819
      3. Thomas munro madras madras 1820
      4. 1823-board of public instruction
      5. A.J arbuthnot first director
   2. filtration theory
      1. filtration theory-1830
      2. educate only high class-failure
      3. The Madras Medical School(1835),Madras Presidency School(1836),Madras Christian School(1840),Pachiappas School(1841)-aristocrats
   3. wood's despatch
      1. replaced filtration theory
      2. Charles wood's despatch was called the Magna Carta of education-1854
      3. link all stages -primary-college education
      4. no_ - district,taluk schools inc
      5. The Madras Medical School(1835)-The Madras Medical college(1851)
      6. Survey school-engineering College in madras(1857)
      7. The Presidency School-The Presidency College
   4. hunter commission
      1. hunter commission-1882
      2. neglect primary studies-suggest distribute responsibilities municipalities,district boards
      3. 1890,governor establish connemara library(lord connemara)
      4. 1891,law college madras
      5. 1929,annamalai university,Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar
      6. Government of India act(1935)no_schools colleges increased
      7. Sir john sergeant plan(1944) education free compulsory 6-14
   5. merits
      1. bharathi
      2. national conciousness
      3. unity in diversity
      4. women's education
   6. demerits
      1. mass education
      2. clerks
      3. foreign medium
3. Christian missionaries
   1. renaissance15th,reformation16th,Christianity
   2. growth
      1. Portuguese
         1. Portuguese-society of jesus-16thc
         2. father fernandes-punnakayal-1567
         3. chennai,nagapatnam,tiruchi,dindugal
      2. Jesuits
         1. madura mission-father Robert de nobili arrived 1606 rule of muthukrishnappa nayak
         2. john de britto-ramnad,pudukottai
         3. father Constantine Joseph beschi veeramamunivar-1711-1742
            1. author thembavani
      3. American
         1. American jaffna mission-1834
         2. Madurai,didugal and ramanathapuram
         3. arcot mission-scudder brothers-usa-1853
         4. ignatious Loyola college-Loyola college,chennai,Scott Christian college-nagercoil,American college-Madurai,st.joseph's college-tiruchi,st.xavier college-palayamkottai
      4. protestant missionaries
         1. chennai,tiruchi,tanjore,cuddalore,palayamkottai
      5. Basel mission
         1. employment of trained orphans
      6. London mission society
         1. nagarcoil,neyyur,palayamkottai