This is the number 1 university of the ancient world, its first academic session started in 2014.
PM Modi inaugurated Nalanda today (19 June), which is known as one of the oldest education centres in the world.
According to some records, Nalanda was actually built on a mango garden. The place developed further during the Gupta period, and by the seventh century, it had become a Mahavihara in Bihar.
Even before Oxford University was built, Nalanda University of India had 9 million books.
It would help if you also had a question in your mind: who destroyed Nalanda University,
It would help if you also had a question in your mind: who destroyed Nalanda University,
This university was destroyed by Islamic Turk Bakhtiar Khilji in the year 1193.
About 1500 years ago, the story was different because, at that time, there was a university in India which is one of the oldest universities in the world today.
In the 12th century AD, Bakhtiar Khilji burned the library here. An article tells the whole story of this university; its link URL is on the button below.