Essay On Modern Education

Education is the main factor resulting in social change. Modern education plays a key role in changing the status and process of social mobility. It not only helps an individual in adapting to emerging social situation but also play creative role in liberating minds from the clutches of the established culture. Education among the Muslim women has been treated under two heads, that of religious and secular training. The traditional education pattern which is largely religious includes initiation of the children in the reading of the holy book. Traditional educational institutions were Maktabs and Madrassa where religious education was given to children’s. Secular education is imparted in two ways, either at home or at school. (Roy, 1979) In

During British period education for women was first introduced in presidencies of Bombay, madras and Calcutta and subsequently in other provinces. Christian missionaries, social groups, private agencies and British government opened several schools and colleges across the country. With the steady development of an educational infrastructure in the late nineteenth century female school rose significantly but a gap between male and female education remained there as the majority of the girls did not receive formal schooling inspite of opening of many girl schools (Hassan and Menon, 2005). The spread of education during British period was uneven due to unequal access to facilities, and lack of interest and schooling remaining an urban monopoly (Vatuk, 1994). Muslims had been kept out of the educational system established by the British officials and missionaries in the nineteenth century with very few very few Muslim girls receiving education. Muslim women were given education at home and there was an intense opposition to Muslim girl receiving school education. The aspects like maintaining purdha, only girl schools and preference of schools that inculcated Islamic ethos were given importance (Hassan and Menon, 2005). Influenced by the secular and modern western education system of the British , Syed Ahmed khan started

Education of Muslim women in Jammu and Kashmir

In Jammu and Kashmir also the situation was same but through educational reforms in the state the situation is different in present scenario as we can see Muslim women working in every department and also rise in women literacy rate. Through different studies it is found that Muslim women in Jammu and Kashmir are better educationally and socially as compared to women in other parts of the country. Barring the period of militancy in the state during which not only women but men also