Question

Special features of patshala

Answer 1

                        SPECIAL FEATURES OF PATHSHALA

Pathshala pre-modern local elementary education centre imparting secular instructions geared to meet the practical needs of the community, such as zamindari accounts, mahajani accounts, weights and measures, document and letter writing etc. The pathshala was usually set up by an instructor called guru, who ran the centre as his private concern. 

The pathshala was an open air institution having no paraphernalia like permanent structures, furniture and staff. A pathshala carried no name. It was usually known to people by the name of the guru who ran it. The pupils sat on the ground. They were, however, free to bring from home their own gears to sit on, such as small-sized mats made of cane, bamboo reeds, barks, leaves etc.