Educational movements in India(Pre Independent)

    Macaulay's Minute (1835)
    Woods Despatch (1854)
    Indian Education Commission (1882)
    Lord Curzon's Educational Policy and National Education Movement
    Educational Conference (1901)
    Indian Universities Commission (1902)
    Indian Universities Act (1904)
    Government Resolution on Government Policy (1904)
    Gokhale's Efforts and Bill for Compulsory Primary Education (1910-12)
    Government Resolution on Education Policy (1913)
    Sadler Commission or Calcutta University Commission (1917-1919)
    Foundation of Viswabharathi Tagore 1921
    Government of India Act (1935)
    The Wardha Scheme of Education (1937)
    Sargent Report (1944)


Educational movements in India (Post Independent)

    University Education Commission (1947-48)
    Secondary Education Commission (1952-53)
    Education Commission (1964-66)
    NCERT Curriculum 1975
    National Policy on Education - NPE (1986) and Programme of Action (1986))
    Modified National Policy of Education (1992)

Important Educational Bodies:

    Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
    National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT)
    Indian Council for Medical Research(ICMR)
    National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC)
    All India Council for Technical University (AICTE)
    National Council for Technical Education (NCTE)
    Distance Education Council (DEC)
    Open University Network (OUN)


Important Universities and year of establishment:

    University of Culcutta (1857)
    University of Madras (1857)
    Mumbai University (1857)
    University of Delhi (1922)

    Jamia Millia Islamia (1962)
    Aligarh Muslim University (1920)
    Banaras Hindu University (1916)
    Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU)
    University of Hyderabad(1974)
    Viswabharathi 1921(recognised as University in 1951)
    North Eastern Hill University (1973)
    Nagaland University (1994)
    ASSAM University(1994)
    Pondicheri University (1985)
    Ambedkar University (1994)
    National Urdu University (1997)