Tag: Madarsa Education

There is a genuine case for Indian madrassas to reorient their studies with skills development of their students; it may silence their critics besides influencing the government to support these initiatives. By Asad Mirza @AsadMirzaND Ever since their emergence, the Madrassas in India have persisted with a curriculum that has seen few changes. The fact that literally, lakhs of Muslim children acquire their primary, and perhaps their only formal education, in these Madrassas where only literature and Islamic studies with a cursory knowledge of social sciences thrown in, are taught, should be...