Nalanda was the world’s first residential university, thriving for nearly 700 years in ancient India. Its legacy of global scholarship and multidisciplinary study continues to inspire modern education. Nalanda , ancient university and Buddhist monastic center southwest of Bihar Sharif in central Bihar state, northeastern India. Extensive excavations indicate that the monasteries were built during the Gupta period (5th century CE). Nalanda was probably sacked during Muslim raids in Bihar (c. 1200) and never recovered. About Nalanda University Located in the town of Rajgir [ancient Imperial capital city] in the northern province of Bihar in India, Nalanda University is a post-graduate, research-intensive international university established on 25th November 2010, as “an institution of national importance”, by a special Act [No. 39 of 2010] of the Parliament of India, aiming to revive the erstwhile renowned ancient seat of learning, which thrived from 5th century CE to 12th century CE, as the first ... The name Nalanda resonates as an inspiration to anybody who heard about this place as the nurturing ground of the first residential international university of the world for great learning during the era when most of the other countries of the world were at the very nascent stage of development. Today, even as the ruins of that glorious past continue to mesmerise the present. The district, well -connected by network of roads and railways, had been a cradle of multiple religious evolutions ...
