What was the literacy rate of Ancient India?

Kushagra is right, writing came very late to India because all knowledge was learned by rote. The entire corpus of the Veda was committed to memory and taught to students. read more

Literacy in India is a key for socio-economic progress, and the Indian literacy rate has grown to 73% (2011 Census figure) with recent reports of 80% literacy. The literacy rate at the end of British rule in 1947 was around 17%. read more

LITERACY AND RATIONALITY 1 JOHANNES BRONKHORST LITERACY AND RATIONALITY IN ANCIENT INDIA (Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques 56(4), 2002, 797-831) The problem The production and use of written texts in classical Greece began to increase rapidly around the early fifth century B.C.E., and accelerated tremendously during the course of the fifth and fourth centuries. read more